Film
FilmAfrica Shorts Program 2: South Africa
- 7:45PM
Post-screening Q&A
with Atandwa Kani (actor, The Suit) and Mark Freeman (director, Dancedancerevolution and Conquest and Prison)
Dir. Mark Freeman
2017, 27min
This arresting overview of contemporary dance in South Africa showcases the work of innovative choreographers for whom movement becomes a powerful tool with which to address politics, history, race, and gender.
Dir. Mark Freeman
2018, 8min
This two-part suite of site-specific dance films is set in Grahamstown, South Africa. Part I, Oscar’s Journey, features a deeply personal solo performance by Oscar Buthelezi, the first African choreographer to win the prestigious Kurt Jooss Prize. In Part II, Child’s Play, Lorin Sookool and Julia Wilson attempt to reclaim and re-imagine suffering in a virtual duet at the Old Gaol, this site where thousands of black South Africans were imprisoned.
Dir. Jarryd Coetsee
2016, 30min
In this unsettling allegory of control and oppression based on a short story by Can Themba, a spurned husband in 1950s Sophiatown exacts revenge on his wife by forcing her to treat the suit of her lover as a person.
Dir. Zwelethu Radebe
2017, 30min
Khetha, a prison warden in Pretoria, South Africa, must chose between forgiveness and a lifetime of regret when the truth of his father's disappearance is brought to the surface on the eve of his execution.
Dir. Teboho Malatshi
2006, 19min
In this captivating, magical realist fable, a reclusive stick fighter living in the mountains of Lesotho embarks on a quest to save the spirit of a woman.
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A probing look at the racial, historical, and political implications of skin-bleaching.
A wondrous animation-documentary hybrid born of the imaginations of five Swazi children.
Four teens swap bodies in this smart, punkish look at race and gender in South Africa.