Glimpse

Glimpse

  • Alberto Iannuzzi, Dan Jawitz
  • South Africa
  • 2005
  • 26 min
  • International Premiere
  • Jan Vrijman Fund
Thirty minutes of images of South Africa, its nature, people and cities, without comment, edited to the hypnotic music of the Cape Town-based musician Campbell Burns. Short and long shots, slowed down and accelerated, close-ups and vistas; collectively, they give a kaleidoscopic impression of this country, more than a decade after the official end of Apartheid. This film is like a Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983) of contemporary South Africa. There are nature shots (cloud formations, recorded in time-lapse and accelerated, and waterfalls in slow motion), followed by images inside a goldmine, where men travel through dark tunnels. Next, the camera shoots up again to the modern city, where a crowd flocks across a marketplace at a tremendous pace. Now and then, the image is decelerated, to portray someone in the crowd - from mass to individual. From adults in an amusement arcade to a girl in the street looking into the camera, the word "Love" on her T-shirt. And from one individual to the next, showing all races and classes: from a begging white man to a rich black man, a kissing couple, white and black, and all the other colours of South Africa. Many people look directly into the camera, making it no longer an unnoticed passer-by, but part of its subject, a portrait of an era full of contrasts.

Credits

  • 26 min
  • color
  • video
Director
Alberto Iannuzzi, Dan Jawitz
Production
Dan Jawitz for Vox Pix
Cinematography
Alberto Iannuzzi
Editing
Julia Salerno
Music
Campbell Burns, Claudio Montuori

IDFA history

2005
International Premiere
Jan Vrijman Fund
2005
Supported with €10000 for Classic: Production & postproduction

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