Iseeyou takes the slogan of the first multiracial trade union in South Africa and looks at the public representation of labour in Johannesburg. In strong black-and-white images, Gush explores the city’s public monuments dedicated to work and workers and observes how they were celebrated in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.
Also in this combined programme
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Eyrie
The puddles of the derelict Buzludzha Monument reflect what is left of Bulgaria’s communist past. Connolly’s camera finds humour and joy in the detail -
Embargo
Night-time, high-tech surveillance video uses circling camera and hallucinatory soundtrack to depict an average business park. Things are not what the -
San Siro
Painstaking study of Milan’s most important, most famous football stadium and the meticulous preparations on match day. -
L’invention du désert
‘Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children’. Sketch of an eery post-human landscape that looks suspiciously like
Film details
- Country of production
- South Africa
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- File
