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Private Footage

Filme particular
Janaína Nagata
Brazil
2022
91 min
Dutch Premiere
Festival history

In 2018, artist and filmmaker Janaína Nagata bought an old reel for a 16mm projector online. It turned out to contain a vacation film of a couple and their young daughter in South Africa. The movie included scenes of a safari in Kruger Park, rickshaw drivers dressed in “traditional” costume in Durban, Bantu women in the parched countryside, and white women amusing themselves at a swimming pool.

Private Footage starts with the vacation film; then Nagata uses open sources on the Internet (Google, YouTube, etc.) to find the other reality, the one not shown in the film. Using split screen, she presents fragments from the vacation movie on one side and her research findings on the other. In the course of this fascinating documentary she completely deconstructs the vacation footage, pretty much shot by shot.

The apparently innocent images conceal the appalling apartheid system; meanwhile its architect, Hendrik Verwoerd, can be seen enjoying dinner with fellow members of the white elite. The jarring, dissonant soundtrack intensifies the queasy atmosphere and the sense that there is something fundamentally wrong with the scenes from this vacation.

Nominated for Beeld en Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award

Credits
Director
Production
    Julia Alves for Sancho&Punta
    Julia Alves for Sancho&Punta
Co-production
    André Manfrim for Filmes de Taipa
    André Manfrim for Filmes de Taipa
Editing
    Clara Bastos
    Clara Bastos
Screenplay
Music
    Mariana Carvalho
    Mariana Carvalho
Sound Design
    Gustavo Veluttini
    Gustavo Veluttini
Screening copy
    Sancho&Punta
    Sancho&Punta

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