African School (2017)
Also known as African Film School
2017 · Ephemeral film · 5 min · dir. Roger Horn
Synopsis
Found Super 8mm home movies of wildlife from 1960s apartheid era South Africa and colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) comprise the visual elements of African Film School. In order to disrupt the viewer, American filmmaker Roger Horn juxtaposes these found images with audio he recorded while attending a wildlife film-training program in Cape Town in 2007. Through the disruption of filmmaking conventions Horn looks to make the viewer confront their own stereotypes and ponder the nature of capturing images in Southern Africa.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Roger Horn
- Released
- 2017-01-30
- Running time
- 5 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- African School
Cast & crew
Roger Horn Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Training the Idi Amins of Tomorrow! · Spuzz · 2023-07-29
Film shows 2 African boys, maybe about 10-12 wandering off from somewhere and eventually going to this school. They register, and then off they go! Not too sure how accurate the registration program is lol, whether they just take strays off the street, but this is what I picked up from this film. Heck, they'll even provide sleeping quarters for you! It does appear to be a military school though, check out that marching gear! So WHO KNOWS WHAT THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS SCHOOL WAS.