Recording a performative action where Judith Westerveld grew up in South Africa, the film captures a first practice session in the Khoe language Khoekhoegowab. Words and phrases commonly used in conversation linger in the landscape, her voice strained by exertion and the difficulty of pronouncing words unknown. (LIMA)
Also in this combined programme
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On the Border
Ocean trash on the beach can be surprisingly captivating. Human amorality, irresponsibility and ocean waves collaborate to create these objects.
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rEVOLUTION: Notes for the Invasion: mar mar march
Inspired by a Leni Riefenstahl documentary, Paul Kos uses his typewriter to duplicate the rhythm of marching.
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PTKHO
Escaped from a dream close to the ground, the phenomena of sound poetry retreat farther and farther until they vanish.
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Birth of the Alseides
A flock of nymphs herald the arrival of spring and explore their hazy surroundings through dance.
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Ziarah
On an uninhabited Indonesian island where the nobleman Tupaia is believed to be buried, Bridget Reweti telescopes then and now.
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Chromaticité I
People flee in terror before the force, or remain riveted to their seat, in the clutches of fear.
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Retaliation
Inspired by Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, a woman gets rid of her frustration by hitting and breaking something.
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Dutchman’s Photographs
A series on the movement of walking barefoot through the ocean waves, produced using several hundred photographs.
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Geschichten vom Kübelkind, Episode 7: Ein ganz kleines Glück
In the seventh episode of Stöckl and Reitz’ film series, Dumpster Kid fools around with the fruits of the field.
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Mino-bimaadiziwin
A Super-8 time-lapse documentation of the First Story’s walking tour by Jaene Castrillon: a disabled, mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler.
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Birds in the Earth
Examination of the deeper questions concerning ownership of Sámi land through dance performances by two young ballet students.
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Man Walking
Nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking between life and death.
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Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View
A cinematographic reflection on a historic train journey seen from the people’s perspective, with photographs, home movies and witness accounts.
Film details
- Country of production
- South Africa
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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