RATGIRL is the digital avatar of artist Jazzard Jaslyn, who crafts endurance performance pieces staged through Instagram stories which re-enact indignities still faced by marginalised people in post-apartheid South Africa. But this country is lonely is most concerned with the dehumanising and flattening effect social media has on our understanding of complex humanitarian crises.
Also in this combined programme
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I’ve Never Been a Fisherman
Joe Stankus’s profile of filmmaker and street photographer Jay Giampietro and how he captures New York’s strangest citizens on Instagram. -
Please step out of the frame.
Using Super-8, a desk and a laptop, Karissa Hahn creates a playful choreography of body and screen. -
Hi I Need to Be Loved
Marnie Ellen Hertzler hires actors from Craigslist to perform her spam emails in this consideration of modern image-making in an algorithmic era. -
The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs
Shot on 16mm, Ross Meckfessel’s sensual odyssey through natural landscapes and digital textures satisfyingly defies concrete interpretation. -
Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE)
Shot on location at Monet’s famed garden in Giverny, Ja’Tovia Gary interrogates the white, masculine nature of Western art-historical narr -
Lost Episode
Christopher Radcliff cuts together various reactions to a terrifying, fabricated Mickey Mouse cartoon, in this unsettling experimental piece. -
Little Lower Than the Angels
NEOZOON explores the memeification of American Christian iconography and rituals, finding rhythms and patterns in unlikely places.
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Film details
- Country of production
- South Africa
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
