Greetings to the Ancestors
Greetings to the Ancestors is Ben Russell’s eighteenth film at IFFR since 2002 and the final part in The Garden of Earthly Delights, a trilogy examining the ecstatic limits of utopia in the present. ‘Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory’s inhabitants as the borders of consciousness dissolve and expand.’ (Ben Russell) See also Atlantis in compilation programme Arcadian Field Notes. Winner Tiger Award for Short Films 2015.
Also in this combined programme
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The Many Colors of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness
A mysterious and melancholic take on our fate as mortal beings, the film contemplates the details lost in the construction of history and memory.
Night Soil – Fake Paradise
Study into the hallucinatory ayahuasca plant’s healing power for modern man. On the limits of Western medicine, love, feminism and eco-consci
Film details
- Countries of production
- South Africa, UK, USA
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 29"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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