rituals

An extraordinary series on BBC Two:
BBC Two - Extraordinary Rituals

With more on the Open University website:
Extraordinary Rituals - OpenLearn - Open University

Here are a couple of examples:

Extraordinary Rituals: Minisodes

Watch exclusive short films made by the Extraordinary Rituals team

• Behind the scenes of Oto Matsuri - Yuji's StorySeries 1, Great Gatherings

  Yuji Moromoto takes his 3 year old great nephew to the fire festival for the first time

  

  6:39

• Behind the scenes of the Pasola - the ritual battle to spill…Series 1, Great Gatherings

  Pasola can only happen once the seaworms arrive. The crew wait, but will they come?

  

  11:13

• Behind the scenes filming Oto Matsuri - a Japanese festival…Series 1, Great Gatherings

  The challenges of filming the Japanese fire festival of Oto Matsuri

  

  6:47

• Web exclusive: Exploding sledgehammers in a Mexican town

  This centuries old ritual, which takes place at lent remembers a rivalry between two clans

  

  6:01

• Web exclusive: Big wave surfing - the new ritualSeries 1, Changing World

  Extreme big wave surfers take on monster waves with the help of a new ritual.

  

  10:26

• Web exclusive: Bonsai - the endless ritualSeries 1, Changing World

  Decades of intimate nurture link Bonsai masters to their trees and to time itself.

  

  4:08

• Behind the scenes in Papua New Guinea - becoming a womanSeries 1, Circle of Life

  Girls take on crocodile power with a brutal initiation into womanhood.

  

  8:36

• Behind the scenes at a Kayapo birth - a race against timeSeries 1, Circle of Life

  The crew race to film a birth in the Amazon.

  

  10:42

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