ENC: Shorts 1

The Bioscope is proud to welcome back The Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival.

Tickets R55

Shorts 1

African Film School (2017)

Directed by: Roger Horn

5min

Super 8mm home movies of wildlife from 1960s South Africa and Rhodesia are juxtaposed with the audio from a 2007 wildlife film-training programme. Often humorous it reflects on the nature of capturing images in Southern Africa.

Father's House (2016)

Directed by: Mia Cilliers & Roxanne Dalton

6min

Clifford Brandon lives in a cave. Guided by God he has painstakingly transformed it into an intricately decorated, multi-roomed home. A gently poetic meditation on the meaning of “home” and what it is that binds us to it.

Mamajara (2016)

Directed by: Joyce Nkgapele

12min

Mamajara Malope moved to Jozi in 1978, lives alone in a small shack with no communication with, or financial support from her two children. It’s a heartbreaking indictment of poverty among one of Africa’s richest nations.

Promised Land Fallacy (2016)

Directed by: Kyla Philander

27min

This is the Trans Collective’s story. Any other narrative pertaining to decolonisation in the diaspora excluding the voice of the poor black trans queer bodies is a lie. Let us speak the truth.

Say It With Flowers (2017)

Directed by: Aryan Kaganoff 

25min

 A self-described “abuse” of the home movies of Charles Weich, music writer for Die Burger for 30 years under the United Party and the Nats, Say It With Flowers presents a troubling, ghostly document of the melodrama and ritual of colonial-apartheid whiteness in Cape Town.