Yo-Landi Visser

It took more than 19 hours for Die Antwoord, South Africa’s bonkers electro-rap collective, to travel from their homeland to Lollapalooza, but not even jetlag was going to stop emcees Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er from fighting crime — or doling out alternate South African history lessons.

2016년, 매일 300건의 범죄가 폭주하는 요하네스버그. 도시의 치안을 책임지는 세계 최초의 로봇 경찰 ‘스카우트’ 군단을 설계한 로봇 개발자 ‘디온(데브 파텔)’은 폐기된 스카우트 22호에 고도의 인공지능을 탑재하여 스스로 생각하고 느낄 수 있는 성장하는 로봇 ‘채피’를 탄생시킨다. 한편, 진화하는 로봇에 맞서 인간의 힘으로 로봇을 통제하고 싶은 무기 개발자 ‘빈센트 (휴 잭맨)’는 눈엣가시 ‘채피’를 제거하기 위한 음모를 꾸미게 되고, 예상을 뛰어넘는 속도로 성장하던 ‘채피’는 어느새 인류를 위협하는 대상으로 몰리게 되는데… 생존을 꿈꾸는 로봇 ‘채피’와 로봇을 통제하려는 ‘인간’의 대결이 시작된다!

The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to Barão Geraldo because things happen here. Here people love as much as dolls hang themselves and chicken are slaughtered to death. Would I still hang dolls and burn memories in the next 18 years? It astonishes me how less and less I do not care for things that are not my extension. Being my own destruction is the only way. Intimacy is a farewell. All I see is a lot water and all the colors are not enough. All forms of comunication are not enough for a lot of water.

Originally published as two parts, this documentary from Jimbo Stephens explores the projects of South African rapper and visual artist Watkin Tudor Jones Jr.

Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. It's time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts of civilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints, and sleep in the woods. They don't have any bling to show for their gangsta cred, but the world deserves to know who they are. They're tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off. Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence, but Yo Landi won't let him give up. What ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit.

Back in June, we invited South African rave-rap crew Die Antwoord to play their first show in New York City. They are one of our favorite bands and their performance that day was one of the most hectic, intense and amazing shows we had seen in a long time. While we were hanging out with them here, Ninja and Yo-Landi kept talking about a little monster called Tokoloshe, the most feared of all African demons. Ninja told us about how when he was growing up, his nanny would use a stack of bricks to raise her bed up, just to keep the Tokoloshe away at night. It turns out this is a fairly common practice among women in South Africa since this hairy, pot-bellied dwarf, unlike your typical Western boogiemonsters, is believed to have a penis the size of a horse’s and a penchant for sneaking into people’s bedrooms and raping them.

A warmhearted slice-of-life story showing viewers how important family reunions are, psychologically and emotionally. But also a satire of white privileged church going South African society and their normalization.