Dragging Chains

Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt

2024 / 30 minutes
Denmark / Grenada
English

Best Student Film — Winner

Dragging Chains moves between observation and conversation as it unravels the apparent obscurity of Grenada’s Jab Jab masquerade. Filmed during the 2023 carnival season, the documentary immerses audiences in a sensory spectacle of oil, chains, and rhythm, while the stories shared by local practitioners offer a contemporary interpretation. As the spectacle unfolds, the initial exotic appeal gives way to deeper questions of resilience, protest, and the enduring effects of colonialism. Dragging Chains is a student film by Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt, created in the master’s program in visual anthropology at UiT—The Arctic University of Norway.