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Luanda is afflicted with a plague of AC units falling off buildings in this downbeat, appropriately low-tech, science fiction
If Wakandan boffins put Afrofuturism back on the map in Black Panther, this short, quirky Angolan feature is Afrofuturism when the service guarantee runs out on the technology. It’s a magic-realist parable with the thinnest shrinkwrapping of sci-fi: Angola’s capital Luanda is afflicted by a strange plague of air conditioning units falling from buildings, as if they are committing suicide. Security guard Matacedo (José Kiteculo) is tasked with heading out into the street to recover an AC for his sweltering boss, some kind of city bigwig, hectored by his housemaid Zézinha (Filomena Manuel).
Director Fradique does pick at a vein of social commentary – the cooling crisis notably affects the poor more than the rich – but it is just one minor element in a swirling, enigmatic experience. Tracked by a lilting Steadicam,...
If Wakandan boffins put Afrofuturism back on the map in Black Panther, this short, quirky Angolan feature is Afrofuturism when the service guarantee runs out on the technology. It’s a magic-realist parable with the thinnest shrinkwrapping of sci-fi: Angola’s capital Luanda is afflicted by a strange plague of air conditioning units falling from buildings, as if they are committing suicide. Security guard Matacedo (José Kiteculo) is tasked with heading out into the street to recover an AC for his sweltering boss, some kind of city bigwig, hectored by his housemaid Zézinha (Filomena Manuel).
Director Fradique does pick at a vein of social commentary – the cooling crisis notably affects the poor more than the rich – but it is just one minor element in a swirling, enigmatic experience. Tracked by a lilting Steadicam,...
- 7/19/2021
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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Fradique's Air Conditioner is exclusively showing on Mubi in many countries in the series Debuts."It was a building, maybe a world to have a world it’s enough to have people and emotions, the emotions, raining down inside people’s bodies, spill into dreams, people may be no more than ambling dreams of melted emotions in the blood contained by the skins of our oh-so-human bodies, we can call that world ‘life’.”—from Transparent City, by OndjakiDecades before Air Conditioner, there was a generation who got lost in the darkness of the long night that followed the warm and bright hope of our independence. They were the first generation of Angolan filmmakers, who believed and fought for a "Cinema of Urgency,” as the incredible filmmaker and poet Ruy Duarte de Carvalho would label it. A Cinema that would let us know who we are in every single corner of our country and soul.
- 7/18/2021
- MUBI
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