North American Premiere
High energy music, repurposed archival footage from the Eye Film Museum, and minimal animation encapsulate a portrait of social norms, religious persuasions, cultural taboos and political interventions that dictate and punctuate how and who we love. Yet, emancipation is found in the erotic.
Series Media Partner
Community Partner
South Africa/Austria
2023
English
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Credits
Executive Producer
Florian Schattauer
ANIM
The Kinetic None, Stephen Galloway, Jano Booysen
Editor
Nikki Comninos
Original Music
Nishlyn Ramanna
Director
Jyoti Mistry
Born in Durban, South Africa in 1970, she works with film as an interplay between cinematic traditions and installation art. Her films have screened at festivals including Toronto, Winterthur, Rotterdam and Durban and in exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Wien. She has been artist in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was a member of the International Short Film Jury at the 68th Berlinale. She is currently professor for film at the University of Gothenburg.
MODES
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MODES 1
From the indoctrination of youth to increasing surveillance, populist ethno-nationalist and fascist ideologies continue to take root, yet dissent remains at the fore.
MODES 2
Intimate and unapologetic stories of women and queer lives are uncovered through provocative and deeply personal accounts that examine memory, identity, and dignity.
MODES 3
Moving through often uncharted (subaltern) territory, these works and their subjects carry the remnants of emotional and physical labour on their shoulders, both literally and figuratively.