Johannesburg Tour & District 9
Compilation programme of short films about South Africa from the EYE collection, including Letter to Vorster (1976, 17', 16mm) by filmmaker Roeland Kerbosch, followed by a conversation with Michelle Parlevliet about the relationship between the Netherlands and South Africa since apartheid. Michelle Parlevliet is a specialist in human rights and conflict management and worked as a researcher at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commision. Roeland Kerbosch made several short films, feature films and documentaries
After a short break, the sci-fi film District 9 by the young South African director Neill Blomkamp (2009, 112', 35mm) will be screened, in which aliens in a giant spaceship land in Johannesburg. The engineers from this spaceship encounter slithering shrimp-like creatures. Housing them in barbed wired camps seems a safe solution... The film presents social criticism in a sci-fi packing and comments on xenophobia and machismo, sparing whites nor blacks. Oscar nominations for screenplay, editing, effects, and Best Picture.
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William Kentridge
From 25 April till 30 August Eye presented If We Ever Get to Heaven, featuring work by the celebrated South African artist William Kentridge (Johannesburg, 1955).
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