At this event two of Nicolas Boone’s most recent works, Psalm (2015) and Hillbrow (2014) will be screened.
Winner of the CNAP PRIZE, FIDMarseille, July 2015.
PSALM
Nicolas Boone, France, 2015, 48 min.
In a near future, the villages of a Sub-Saharan area have all been deserted. Mad and disabled people as well as child soldiers are the only ones who remain on those dry lands. In this survival atmosphere, relationships are harsh.
"In Psalm, the location is not specified apart from contemporary indicators of sub-Saharan Africa. At the start, from the white background of the screen and as if emerging from an earthy dust, a small cart pulled by a donkey accompanied by ghostly figures arrives at a well. Drinking, fussing with a can, is their first action and it is slow, long, necessary and primordial. Then they leave. From one scene to the next, the obviousness of which is imposed each time by a long sequence shot enveloping space that is both ample and fluid, a post-apocalyptic landscape is drawn, the colours faded, without sunshine." -
FIDMarseille HILLBROW
Nicolas Boone, France, 2014, 32 min.
Hillbrow, Johannesburg’s oldest and trendiest cultural attraction, has now developed into a densely populated and rather violent working-class neighborhood. The movie Hillbrow offers a selection of local stories that cross over geographical boundaries and whose fictional characters are portrayed by inhabitants presently living in the neighborhood. In ten journeys, Hillbrow draws a labyrinth of urban tensions.
"Nicolas Boone dissects the violent neighborhood of Hillbrow, in Johannesburg, through a series of episodes drawn from real life stories. A man stands in the ledge of a high building, looking down. Another man gets attacked on the streets. Violence is seen as a force of rupture on this urban panorama." -
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