Open City Film: 8 films, 3 days - Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at
, a two-hander featuring Patricia Boyers and performance artist Albert Ibokwe Khoza as Credo Mutwa, is many things, except for slick. In summary, the film offers a speculative reading of Mutwa, the enigmatic Zulu mystic and author who died in March 2020.
The zingy wardrobe is a hybrid of Afrofuturist aspiration, à la jazzman Sun Ra circa 1972 in borrowed Egyptian costume, and AfrikaBurn chic. The dialogue is jaunty, but too easily tips over into indictment and academicism. It quotes verbatim Achille Mbembe’s speculation, from a 2015 essay, that: “The African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century.
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