rituality, 2008-09, standbilder aus dem videoloop, 4:00 min. / rituality, 2008-09, stills from the videoloop, 4:00 min.
		Rituality is a sensitive approach to the experience of having children and becoming one family. The “Rituality“ space should radiate high energy and liveliness. It is very important for Kim Dotty to both consciously and unconsciously celebrate rituals. They provide us with stability, sometimes even with meaning in our everyday lives. Kim Dotty’s own family acts as the main characters in the video. The birth is celebrated by the father, the elder brother and the pregnant mother in the form of a natural ceremony. The ritual scenes are based on Kim Dotty’s observations of her 3.5 year old son. His ritualistic habits of collecting bricks and other objects that we adults mostly don’t even notice espe- cially fascinated Kim. The more she tried to “feel herself into” her son’s world the more it reminded her of both the rites of aboriginal people and her own childhood. By employing a loincloth and the typically yellow Romika rubber boots of her childhood she tried to convey this notion through costumes. director of photography Konstantinos Toubekis music Jemery Woodruff