Excuse Me, While I Disappear
The Chinese have built an impossibly huge housing project in Angola because the latter has oil. This film with little plot, follows a man going to work at the scarcely inhabited project in the morning. The filmmaker listed old, European ethnographic films and African science-fiction films as his sources. See also Flies.
Also in this combined programme
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Flies.
An older man lives alone in a deserted apartment complex. He unintentionally witnesses a murder after which the killers end his loneliness. Charact
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Square Stories Too
Basically three films rolled into one. Various, jump-cut images depict life and work on Addis Ababa’s central square. A contemporary triptych
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Epicura
Moody, night-time walks that don’t always seem to have a purpose. In Brazzaville there is always something up. Melancholy wanderers.
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The Bridge
Filmmaker looks out of his window onto the tough life outside because it’s not any old bridge he lives beside and not any old South African t
Film details
- Country of production
- South Africa
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 18"
- Medium/Format
- File
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