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In 1993 mixed martial arts cage fighting was introduced to the United States. With its meteoric rise in popularity the sport and its members evolved dramatically, creating a unique culture based on intelligent aggression and strategic violence.
In this process cage fighters traded traditionally modernistic notions of work and life for new post modern ideologies and practices. Today they embrace strategic ambiguity, organically negotiated relationships, boundary-less structures and proactive empowerment to better themselves and their fighting culture.
To illuminate the post modern intricacies of MMA fighters I shadowed Kurtis Cloward for more than two weeks as he prepared for a cage fight in April 2009. Over the course of those two weeks I captured a majority of his daily life with a camera and a microphone. The experience was to say the very least a unique one for both of us. The following documentary explores the MMA fighter as a complex and sometimes dichotomous being – one that embodies the new post modern contributor to the future.
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