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Saarbrucken

The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Berlin
Germany

January 21 - 22 , 2017

 
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Special View
Teboho Edkins
(Germany, South Africa)
Saturday 21, January 2017 / 6 pm
ACUDkino
Berlin /
Germany

 

Gangster Project
 

Gangster Project

 


Teboho Edkins

Germany, South Africa
2011 | 0:55:00

In Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world’s most violent and unequal societies, a young white film student sets out with his cameraman to make a “gangster film,” with real gangsters. After a lengthy search for a suitably ‘cinematic’ character, he finds the perfect gang and settles into their everyday rhythm. The reality soon catches up and the claustrophobic gangster life doesn’t exactly fit to the expectations. Twenty years after the first democratic election, South Africa remains a deeply divided society, one in which dialogue and understanding seem impossible and out of reach. Gangster Project crosses the line between fiction and reality, where real truths are revealed and fiction stops being fiction, and when it stops mattering. The film, directed by Teboho Edkins, was completed in 2011 and was subsequently premiered at the Marseille International Film Festival 2011.



 
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrOiWEVj8rg

 

Gangster Backstage
 

Gangster Backstage

 


Teboho Edkins

Germany, South Africa
2014 | 0:37:30


Teboho Edkins questions professonal criminels about their life concepts, values, hopes and fears.



 
Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/79677425
Film:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1dhjr7_gangster-backstage-un-film-de-teboho-edkins-vostfr_shortfilms

 

Initiation
 

Initiation

 


Teboho Edkins

Germany, South Africa
2016 | 0:11:00


High in the mountains of Lesotho, Mosaku is anxiously awaiting the return of his older brother from an initiation ceremony. The initiates spend 5 months in a remote secrete location. What rituals are performed is known only to those who have taken part. But when the boys return, they are grown men. Initiation is a video work in which I take a scene of an existing film of mine, re-work it with unused footage and shift perspective to that of the younger brother, whereby it becomes an autonomous work. My voice and an old photograph of me as a white child growing up in Lesotho intervene as disturbing elements, simultaneously creating intimacy and distance. Contradictions, notions of identity and fantasy come to the surface.

 
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dswqtrw2MXE


 

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