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Director's Statement
A few years ago, a woman jumped into the icy water of the local river and caught the cross. That was a first in the history of the ceremony, the local priests didn’t know what to do while the locals complained of a breach of regulations. A woman was not supposed to jump or - even worse - catch the cross, the town was on its feet. Subsequently the cross was taken from her and since that year women are officially banned from the event.
The event inspired a rage within me, especially after the decision of the church to ban women from the event from that moment on.
We live in turbulent times but it seems to me that the question of being a woman is more threatened than ever before. We often speak of women and Islam but I would like to push the question further: religion and women and the place of the woman within. Where are we going and what kind of world are we leaving for the woman of tomorrow?
I put forward the notion of the sex of God, and the importance of the factor of the sex of one as pivotal factor in our society. By challenging the idea of the actual sex of the supreme creator I want to put forward the idea of rebellion and the importance to rebel in order to change. Through this simple concept I reinforce my firm believe in the power of the individual.
Petrunija is solid, she is strong and determined, but also beautiful and sexual and while she is terrorised by men the entire day, she manages to stay calm and in control, her goal is clear and simple - she fights to exist in the terms she believes in: FREE and she is prepared to succumb under most difficult and agonising difficulties to reach it.