12th Encouters Documentary Festival (CT) August 2010
Films of interest to PANSA members:
In Of Heart and Courage: Béjart Ballet Lausanne we see Gil Roman faced by a daunting and thrilling challenge. He has ‘inherited’ the renowned Lausanne-based ballet company founded by his mentor, Maurice Béjart. He must choreograph and present his first ballet to an expectant audience who will make the inevitable comparisons. This a superb film, not just for ballet aficionados, and what emerges is the delicate interplay between Roman and his dancers in producing an exquisite, exciting, exacting ballet.
Cape Town:
Nu Metro, V&A:
Sunday 15th August, 8.15pm
Friday 20th August, 8.30pm
Sunday 29th August, 8.15pm
Flares. Headspins. Power moves. These staples of B-Boy dance are all on display in Turn It Loose (directed by Alastair Siddons), which showcases the Red Bull BC One in Soweto in 2007 where competitors vied for the coveted one-on-one breakdancing world champion's trophy. The striking cinematography and editing capture the intense physicality of this hip-hop discipline in the heat of the battle. But, interestingly, it also reveals the emotional, spiritual and philosophical energy spent in preparing for gruelling competition. Siddons assembles a diverse cast of B-Boy characters from Senegal, Algeria/France, Japan, and the United States; illustrating the diffusion of hip-hop to remote locations and how reinterpretations of this 70s Bronx expression have evolved and progressed. He gives his characters the freedom to turn it loose: to speak their truths and reveal their vulnerabilities – a rare depiction of hip-hoppers who are too often only portrayed as macho posers, youth invested in hyper-masculinity and not much else.
Cape Town:
Nu Metro, V&A:
Saturday 14th August, 8.15pm
Saturday 21st August, 8.30pm
Saturday 28th August, 6pm (+ Q&A)
Encounters is delighted to present the World Première of Afrikaaps (directed by Dylan Valley), which breaks ground by boldly reclaiming and liberating Afrikaans – so long considered the language of the oppressor. It does this by foregrounding alternative histories of ‘the Creole birth’ of the language and shattering long-existing efforts to whitewash and purify Afrikaans. While the ideas of the film are informed by rigorous academic study, the presentation of those ideas are steeped in the now – conveyed by hip hop-generation Cape Town-based artists like Jitsvinger, Bliksemstraal, Blaq Pearl and Emile XY, who school audiences with an immediacy, irreverence and vibrancy often frowned upon by the academy.
Cape Town:
Nu Metro, V&A:
Friday 13th August, 6.30pm (+ Q&A)
Tuesday 24th August, 8.45pm (+Q&A)
Booking Information
TICKET PRICE: R39.00
V&A Nu Metro
For information and bookings: 0861 CINEMA / 0861 246 362 / www.numetro.co.za
or on your mobile @ m.numetro.co.za
In Of Heart and Courage: Béjart Ballet Lausanne we see Gil Roman faced by a daunting and thrilling challenge. He has ‘inherited’ the renowned Lausanne-based ballet company founded by his mentor, Maurice Béjart. He must choreograph and present his first ballet to an expectant audience who will make the inevitable comparisons. This a superb film, not just for ballet aficionados, and what emerges is the delicate interplay between Roman and his dancers in producing an exquisite, exciting, exacting ballet.
Cape Town:
Nu Metro, V&A:
Sunday 15th August, 8.15pm
Friday 20th August, 8.30pm
Sunday 29th August, 8.15pm
Flares. Headspins. Power moves. These staples of B-Boy dance are all on display in Turn It Loose (directed by Alastair Siddons), which showcases the Red Bull BC One in Soweto in 2007 where competitors vied for the coveted one-on-one breakdancing world champion's trophy. The striking cinematography and editing capture the intense physicality of this hip-hop discipline in the heat of the battle. But, interestingly, it also reveals the emotional, spiritual and philosophical energy spent in preparing for gruelling competition. Siddons assembles a diverse cast of B-Boy characters from Senegal, Algeria/France, Japan, and the United States; illustrating the diffusion of hip-hop to remote locations and how reinterpretations of this 70s Bronx expression have evolved and progressed. He gives his characters the freedom to turn it loose: to speak their truths and reveal their vulnerabilities – a rare depiction of hip-hoppers who are too often only portrayed as macho posers, youth invested in hyper-masculinity and not much else.
Cape Town:
Nu Metro, V&A:
Saturday 14th August, 8.15pm
Saturday 21st August, 8.30pm
Saturday 28th August, 6pm (+ Q&A)
Encounters is delighted to present the World Première of Afrikaaps (directed by Dylan Valley), which breaks ground by boldly reclaiming and liberating Afrikaans – so long considered the language of the oppressor. It does this by foregrounding alternative histories of ‘the Creole birth’ of the language and shattering long-existing efforts to whitewash and purify Afrikaans. While the ideas of the film are informed by rigorous academic study, the presentation of those ideas are steeped in the now – conveyed by hip hop-generation Cape Town-based artists like Jitsvinger, Bliksemstraal, Blaq Pearl and Emile XY, who school audiences with an immediacy, irreverence and vibrancy often frowned upon by the academy.
Cape Town:
Nu Metro, V&A:
Friday 13th August, 6.30pm (+ Q&A)
Tuesday 24th August, 8.45pm (+Q&A)
Booking Information
TICKET PRICE: R39.00
V&A Nu Metro
For information and bookings: 0861 CINEMA / 0861 246 362 / www.numetro.co.za
or on your mobile @ m.numetro.co.za