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| Experimental fiction | DVCPRO-HD | color | 23'0'' | South Africa | 2009 |
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A young man (Hubert Brown) arrives in a quiet rural location in order to present his candidature for job there. As the interview procedures are to take place over several days, he has traveled together with his wife (Christine), so that they might both benefit from a few days in the countryside. The project he has to deal with involves the redevelopment of a piece of land previously used as a nature reserve. As the day unfolds a precarious web of power relations becomes evident as various individuals struggle to find a firm footing. It becomes evident that there are several forces already at play in this seemingly empty landscape. Form one hand, the residents are resistant to the development plans and from the other hand, the area seems also to physically affect all those who move through it, animating their gestures with sporadic dancelike movements. The issue of land remains a charged and unresolved issue in South Africa. The film takes the dance-musical form as a point of departure, but eliminates the element of music.
Gregg Smith is an artist of South African origin, born in Cape Town and currently living and working in Paris, France. with origins in the traditions of painting and performance his video works experiment with the narrative form as means to question the relation between personal perceptions and social interactions. His work equally traverses the realms of cinema of contemporary art traditions. Recent exhibitions and screenings include : Fondation Espace Ecureuil (Toulouse), Rotterdam International Film Festival, FIDMarseille International Documentary Film Festival, Galeria dels Angels - Carmelitas Gallery, LOOP `07 (Barcelona), Fundació Joan Miró, (Barcelona), Le Plateau, Espace Experimantal (Paris) et Musé du Jeu de Paume (Paris).
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