Ganpati: Sacred in the Making

Abstract

Ganpati. Sacred in the Making explores the celebration of the Ganesha festival in Palermo, Italy, from the point of view of a woman of Mauritian origins and the ritual community gathering at her temporary shrine. The camera is absorbed in the sacred performance as a ritual tool, conveying the sensory experience of participating in the rite. Merging into musical and sonic performances of devotion, this film is a multimodal engagement with the construction of migrant spaced spaces and the resonances of this process in the urban social fabric.