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- A Christian convert is preparing for his rebirth as a man of god - unaware that his teenage daughter, who hasn't heard from him in three months, has declared him dead on social media. A school girl sees her private life made public when she invites a classmate, who is an online influencer, to her home. A divorced man with financial troubles so much wants to show his young daughter he can be a good father, that he fails to see the precarious position he is manoeuvring himself into. And a poet and commentator risks losing herself and those she loves in her desire to use her fame to achieve social change. In four short films, young South African makers reflect on the seductive, and at times treacherous, illusory reality of the internet. Using humour, suspense and social criticism, this collective production sketches a society dominated by idealised projections of the dreamt self.
- In a quiet allegory on the fragility and volatility of power, a young woman find herself on a rattling taxi to a reality in a new South Africa that is too similar to the old. "Always late" she is scolded by, presumably, her grandmother and falls right into the older woman's shoes as a domestic worker and care-giver. Slowly walking through the quiet home, she seems to imagine herself in the house but under different circumstances. But her reality awaits, so she opens the windows and tends to the old man of the house, lifting him from his slumber and assuring that he has his time in the sun. A dance of grace, restraint, helplessness and frustration to the point of rage unfolds as we watch a young woman silently buck against her job as a care taker to an old white man whose fragility illuminates her potential power at the same time as it reaffirms his own. In a moment of rage turned madness, she sinks the old man during his bath, submerging him underwater as the full might of her power descends on her, but no sooner has she realized that power that it is drained from her and she is left with nothing but panic. She quietly settles back as a caregiver and their dynamic continues seemingly unchanged in a true South African ending.
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