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Bust Chance
Forceful cuts underline the stunts of the Chinese circus performers and their effect on the audience. Theatre becomes film in this homage to Bruce ConPublished on: -
Lesser Apes
Duke & Battersby propose existence is abject, farcical, and messy. An experimental narrative about a primatologist who falls in love with a bonobo.Published on: -
Landscape, Semi-surround
Semi-surround landscape projected on 16 screens, showing rhythmically-edited moving images of the passing landscape framed though a train window.Published on: -
The Trip
Visiting China for the first time, he became the most popular basketball player in the farmers’ and artists’ village of Songzhuang. The tall African.Published on: -
Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
Musical and experimental film maker Khavn noticed that Filipino film makers are highly regarded in Cameroon – thanks to a popular Filipino soap seriesPublished on: -
The Zulu’s Heart
D.W. Griffith did not shoot this film in Africa, but used black-face actors to express his image of distinctive Zulu behaviour.Published on: -
Blondes in the Jungle
Very funny spiritual adventure. On a hunt for the ‘fountain of youth’, three teenagers in 1980s Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encouPublished on: -
Butterflies Have No Memories
For anyone for whom thirteen hours is too long, here is a real Lav Diaz lasting less than an hour. Filled with nostalgia and hopelessness…Published on: -
Ultimo
Adaptation of the poem Mi ultimo adiós (My Last Goodbye) by Jose Rizal (1896): ‘On the field of battle, ‘mid the frenzy of fight /…Published on: -
Rastus in Zululand
Rastus, the ultimate lazy black, is surreally whisked by boat to Africa and has to make a big decision or be dinner for hungry Zulus.Published on: