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Lewis on shooting protests
Tagged: Film
• Feature
• Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2009
• Megan Lewis
• Operation Lysistrata
• University of Minnesota
You just know when Megan Lewis has entered the room. Her presence is overwhelming: fiery red hair, jittery mannerisms, and effervescent smile. I can’t decide whether she is intimidating or simply confident. She certainly is boisterous.
Beautifully Gert Vlok Nel
Tagged: Film
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• beaufort-west
• fest
• film
• karoo
• national arts festival 2009
• stockman
• vlok nel
A poignant, heartrending voice introduces you to the windswept Karoo landscape in the film Beautiful in Beaufort-Wes. It is the voice of Gert Vlok Nel and it’s almost hypnotic.
Walter Stockman’s film is named after the song that shot Vlok Nel to fame.
It is a documentary about the singer, songwriter and poet.
Triple the film fest fun
A triple dose of local cinema makes convention go down.
South Africa’s 70s stripping sensation who writhed with pythons, André Brink’s love affair with Ingrid Jonker and an examination of the “merits” of terrorism – these three diverse but lip-smacking themes are on the Festival film menu for tomorrow morning.
Terrorism reigns in cinema programme
Tagged: Film
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• bader meinhoff complex
• film
• german
• Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2009
• stammheim
• terrorism
• war
Europe in the 1960s was a place of intellectual struggle, a confrontation between the post-war generation and their elders. Nearly forgotten is the history of a group of young left wing German activists who threw themselves into terrorism against Western capitalism.
The group was known as the Baader-Meinhof gang after its two key members; Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.
Cyberpunk search for consciousness
IT is hard to decide whether interviewing Capetonian Mike Kawitzky or watching his film, Cognition Factor, was the more interesting part of my afternoon. Perhaps this distinction is unnecessary. Cognition Factor, Kawitzky and Schwann (Kawitzky’s cyber alias) all exist in a spinning sphere of cyber cosmic possibilities.
On-off Mbeki doccie to premiere
After a year of at times farcical obstruction by the SABC, the biographical documentary on President Thabo Mbeki, originally commissioned by the public broadcaster, is finally seeing the light at four special screenings around the country.
Local movies worth a watch
Tonight is your last chance to see a programme of South African short films screening at the Glennie Festival Centre. Four of the seven advertised films are being shown: Quinton Lavery’s Freedom Days, Barren and Albino both by Sonya Rademeyer, and Blom by Gordon van der Spuy.
Freedom Days
A steely eye for film
TREVOR Steele Taylor is not a duck treading water, calm on the surface but frantic underneath, his calm is real and contagious and clearly the sign of a man that has it all under control. A man of immense skill and wry wit, an under-acknowledged asset to the festival and South African film. This world renowned film critic manages to divide his time between Johannesburg, Cape Town and London, running festivals while dabbling in everything from direction to being an agent. He brings his nine years of experience running the film festival.
