A double-screen work on violence and freedom. On one screen the ‘alphabet of violence’. The second screen's function is to evoke potential, possibility, aspirations and ambitions of a future where the value of the black man in society is revitalised through a lexicon of freedom; he runs towards his freedom.
The other films shown within PACT: Reframing History
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Fluid Frontiers
Ephraim Asili IFFR 2018 23′Powerful final part in the series of films in which Asili studies his relationship to the African diaspora. Will be screened both as part of Bright Future Short and PACT (Pan-African Cinema Today).
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Her Name in My Mouth
IFFR 2018 6′A reinvocation of the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, through embodiment, gesture and the archive.
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Street 66
Ayo Akingbade IFFR 2018 13′Documentary about Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and the Angell Town community in Brixton, London fighting for better housing conditions.
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Mugabo
Amelia Umuhire IFFR 2018 7′A woman returns to her fatherland Rwanda after 20 years. An impressive journey to a place that previously consisted of other people’s memories.
- Filmmaker
- Jyoti Mistry
- Country
- South Africa, Austria
- Year
- 2017
- Medium
- File
- Length
- 10’
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Florian Schattauer
- Production Company
- Shadowy Meadows Productions
- Sales
- Shadowy Meadows Productions
- Writer
- Jyoti Mistry, Kgafela oa Magogodi
- Cinematography
- Craig Maarschalk
- Editor
- Nikki Comninos
- Sound Design
- Peter Cornell
- Cast
- Ben Tjibe, Kgafela oa Magogodi
