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.
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Trailer
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Film details
- Country of production
- South Africa
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 18"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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