Jaco Bouwer

남아프리카 치치카마의 원시림에서 산림 감시원 가비와 윈스턴은 감시 영상 촬영을 위해 설치한 카메라를 확인하고 있다. 잠시 후 누군가에 의해 드론이 숲 속에 추락하고 가비는 위험하다는 윈스턴의 경고를 무시하고 드론을 찾아 숲 속으로 들어간다. 드론을 찾던 중 울창한 숲 속에서 길을 잃고 헤매던 가비는 바렌트와 스테판이 설치한 덫에 걸려 발을 크게 다친다. 그리고 낡은 오두막에서 원시적인 삶을 살고 있는 바렌트와 그의 10대 아들 스테판을 만난다. 바렌트는 가비를 치료해 주고 창조와 파괴의 어머니인 가이아에게 감사 기도를 드린 뒤 애벌레 등의 식사를 제공한다. 한편 가비를 찾던 윈스턴은 한 번도 본 적 없는 미지의 괴물과 마주친다. 반인 반 버섯의 얼굴을 한 괴물을 피해 달아나던 윈스턴은 곰팡이 포자에 사로 잡히고 잠시 후 그의 얼굴과 몸에서 버섯이 자라기 시작한다. 바렌트는 아픈 아내 릴리와 함께 숲 속에 들어와 스테판을 낳았으며 가이아를 만나게 되었다고 가비에게 말한다. 그날 밤, 바렌트의 오두막에 눈이 없는 버섯 괴물이 나타나고 바렌트는 인류 이전의 존재가 곰팡이 포자를 퍼트릴 준비를 하고 있다고 이야기한다. 그 후 가비가 휴대폰 사진을 스테판에게 보여주자 바렌트는 혐오스러운 악마 같은 기계라고 소리치며 가비의 휴대폰을 던져 버린다. 다음 날, 바렌트의 안내로 숲을 빠져나가던 가비는 산 채로 얼굴과 몸에서 버섯과 포자가 자라고 있는 윈스턴을 발견한다. 윈스턴은 고통스러워하며 가비에게 죽여 달라고 부탁하는데...

What is supposed to be the best holiday of their lives turns to horror as a group of teenagers is picked off one by one in a small coastal village.

A gripping South African Christmas movie about a dysfunctional family and their beach holiday that forces them to come to terms with their flaws, differences, hate and love for each other.

RATGIRL is the digital avatar of artist Jazzard Jaslyn, who crafts endurance performance pieces staged through Instagram stories which re-enact indignities still faced by marginalised people in post-apartheid South Africa. But this country is lonely is most concerned with the dehumanising and flattening effect social media has on our understanding of complex humanitarian crises.

A gritty prison drama, a story about stories, memories inherited become weapons in the mouths of prisoners. Four men in a cramped cell struggle for space to sleep, sit, speak, think. When everyone screams at once, a strange truth emerges.

Taking us into what for Mark Augé is the ultimate non-place - an airport waiting lounge - Stacy Hardy and Jaco Bouwer provide still more proof of supermodernity's failure to do away with organic social life. Granted, the space we enter with them is not one of healthy connections between human beings encountering each other in a functional polis. Clearly, theirs is a world of radical disconnects. At the same time, however, it is a world in which people invent highly idiosyncratic lives for themselves - if there is one thing missing here it is precisely uniformity - and in which imaginaries go haywire. Indubitably, the Hardy/Bouwer airport lounge is a dystopian space and this space, it seems fair to say, functions as a synecdoche for a larger social condition. But dystopia here stands in radical opposition to uniformity and it is determined to break the mold of late capitalist habitus (Dominique Malaquais, SPARCK).

A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the way of life of the uprooted, their love and pain and the desperate longing for a better existence in a system that especially fails the defenseless.

A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the way of life of the uprooted, their love and pain and the desperate longing for a better existence in a system that especially fails the defenseless.

A play about rugby by Saartjie Botha.