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Elephant Games

Games are a narrow slice of culture that go very deep, says Blumberg. In ELEPHANT GAMES, he celebrates the interaction of traditional culture, economics and play at the Elephant Festival in Surin, Thailand.  While focusing on such awesome and often outrageous spectacles as elephant tug-of-war, soccer, and speed races, Blumberg's subtext is the economic dependence of the Thai people on the elephant, its endangered status, and the need for coexistence with humans.  Action-oriented and entertaining, ELEPHANT GAMES is a portrayal of a threatened cultural symbol.