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Love letter to my city

"When I was about nine years old my father stuck me in the Rio Cinema on the corner of President and Sauer streets, while he worked as a journalist at The Star. I was left to my own devices and the cinema was as good a place as any to feed my fantasy." Teddy Mattera experienced the bioscope, and a community's tears.

Back to Bioscope

An old-style movie house in downtown Jo'burg is showing that audiences can be lured away from mainstream cinemas, writes Anthea Buys.

Cold current

Cape Town's post-rock outfit Benguela have made a cold, angular, menacing album of improvisational music. Lloyd Gedye takes a listen.

Using Fanon in vain?

Steve Kwena Mokwena's Driving with Fanon tries to interrogate the reality of post-war Sierra Leone but fails in most regards.

Pick of the Out in Africa festival

Shaun de Waal gives a list of films to see at the Out in Africa festival.