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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
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Gangster Project |
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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.
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Gangster Backstage |
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Teboho Edkins
Germany, South Africa
2014 | 0:37:30
Teboho Edkins questions professonal criminels about their life
concepts, values, hopes and fears.
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Initiation |
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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.
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