The filmmaker calls it a character study, but there are two of those in this short, spatial film: the architect and the apartment complex he designed where he now lives alone. Flies. is set in Pretoria, South Africa in 1995. The white government architect’s role was already played out. See also Excuse Me, While I Disappear.
Also in this combined programme
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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
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Excuse Me, While I Disappear
A Chinese city in Africa. Innumerable square metres in exchange for oil. An employee is followed around the scarcely inhabited city. Until he disap
Film details
- Country of production
- South Africa
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- File
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