Felix in Exile

Felix is alone in a room. The landscape of the East Rand fills his suitcase and the walls. The land is littered with bodies that are assimilated into the earth. A woman, Nandi, surveyer, meets him from behind his mirror. She disappears into the earth. Felix returns to her pool.Felix in Exile was made just before the first general elections in South Africa and poses the question of how the memory can be kept alive of people who have died on their way to the new political system. The landscape is used as a metaphor for the process of remembering and forgetting.