... comes another masterpiece!
It is a bit Oz-related as some of filmmakers interviewed in this documentary are Aussies.
(WARNING: blood, gore, sexuality)
2010/08/12
Outback Tent Boxing
Another brilliant little documentary I found on YouTube.
Tent Boxing is a crossover of sport and entertainment in which fist fights are organised between professional boxers and the local guys who want to prove to their mates and, above all, to themselves that they can conquer their fear and face a superior adversary - that they are real men. Not so much different from adulthood initiation practices in so many ancient cultures.
It's a bit of Australian identity which - sadly - may become extinct before it even gets known.
Tent Boxing is a crossover of sport and entertainment in which fist fights are organised between professional boxers and the local guys who want to prove to their mates and, above all, to themselves that they can conquer their fear and face a superior adversary - that they are real men. Not so much different from adulthood initiation practices in so many ancient cultures.
It's a bit of Australian identity which - sadly - may become extinct before it even gets known.
2010/08/07
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