The event is a joint initiative by the Johannesburg Development Agency and the French Institute of South Africa. The Playtime programme includes some of the very best artistic contributions from both the local and international arena.
Newtown in Jozi inner city and Kliptown in Soweto are sure to come alive to a variety of arts that will aim to attract a range of people from the seasoned "culture vultures" to those who have never attended an exhibition or a theatrical performance, but there will also be a diverse range of free street-theatre and music to tempt the passers-by and casual spectators.
Schedule Of events:
This programme of South African `independent' films was initially termed avant-garde, until it was pointed out to the curator that `avant-garde' is a bit time specific (Europe between the wars in fact). Suitably chastened, the curator has chosen to term the selection `personal' as opposed to `collective', that dangerous spirit of a globalised consciousness. South Africa's most prolific filmmaker, Aryan Kaganof is profiled with four screenings including one world premiere.
Nique Ta Mere! (France-Netherlands-South Africa, 2004, 16mm)
Dir: Aryan Kaganof
"One of the 10 filmmakers most important to the future of cinema" (Variety)
A tighter remix of his earlier, more leisurely film, The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man (made while he was still known as Ian Kerkhof), "Nique ta mere!" was commissioned by the French industrial outfit Tempsion to accompany their debut DVD release. Features the necrological performance outfit Zyklus in one of their rarely filmed events. Urilagnia has never looked this good!
10 min. No under 21
Isolation (USA-South Africa, 2004, 16mm)
Dir: Aryan Kaganof
World premier collaboration
ISOLATION is a collaboration in music and images between Johannesburg based post-gender composer Cobi Van Tonder, American 3D filmmaker Standish Lawder, and Aryan Kaganof. Sophisticated meta-techno textures meet the hallucinogenic imagery of the digital DMT base-pipe.
5 min
VENUE: COUCH AND COFFEE, Newtown
Thur, Fri & Sat 14, 15, and 16 October.
Time 13:00 (1pm)
Nigga (USA-Germany-South Africa, 2004, DV)
Dir: Aryan Kaganof
NIGGA, opening film at this year's Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, is a short piece of political invective about the positioning of so-called black Americans under the Bush regime. Philipp Virus' radical agit-prop images are welded to Carl Hancock-Rux' oxy-acetylene torch vocals. No one here gets out unmoved.
5 min. All ages
VENUE: Kliptown Visitor's Centre, Outdoor Cinema, Saturday 9 October, 20:00 (8pm)
VENUE: Newtown Park Outdoor Cinema, Saturday 16 October, 20:00 (8pm)
Western 4:33 (Namibia, 2002, 35mm)
Dir: Aryan Kaganof
Winner of the Best Video made in Africa award at the 12th African Film Festival of Milan as well as the Best Documentary Award at the 1st Africa and Islands Festival of Reunion, is an elegiac meditation on the impossible colonial dream to "civilize" Africa (by systematically starving the Africans and implementing genocide). Soundtrack by La Monte Young, Sun Ra, Alec Empire, Rodriguez! !! Yes, eclectic. Wiro Felix' sumptuous black and white imagery was shot on super8mm triX Pan film stock and blown up to 35mm. Digital video refugees eat your heart out.
33 min. All ages
VENUE: Newtown Park Outdoor Cinema, Friday 15 October, 20:45
Visit: http://www.rage.co.za/issue43/tyme2playfilm.htm
For bookings and information please phone HENRI VERGON (083) 726 5906.
