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Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory's inhabitants as the borders of consciousness dissolve and expand.' (Ben Russell)
USA / South Africa / United Kingdom, 2015
Director: Ben Russell
Producer: Ben Russell
Photography: Ben Russell
Editor: Ben Russell
Sound design: Ben Russell
Greetings to the Ancestors is Ben Russell's eighteenth film at IFFR since 2002 and the final part in The Garden of Earthly Delights, a trilogy examining the ecstatic limits of utopia in the present.'
Length: 29'
Film format: DCP
Sales: Ben Russell
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Print source: Video Data Bank (VDB)
2015 | IFFR, Rotterdam,
* World premiere
* Won Canon Tiger Awards for Shorts Films
www.iffr.com/en/films/greetings-to-the-ancestors/