Forty international artists have joined forces to create a multifaceted international film to be shown simultaneously at the big COP17 bash.
Letters from the Sky is part of the COPART Cultural Action festival, curated by Cape Town-based Kai Lossgott. The film will showcase a series of messages from artists and filmmakers around the world. The artists were briefed to present personal responses to the effects of climate change on their communities, families and lives.
The festival has been endorsed by the British Council and the City of Cape Town’s climate-smart programme. Lossgott says the artists come from Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Sweden, France, Portugal, Italy, Hawaii, Indonesia, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, India, Australia, Malawi, Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa. The “letters” take the form of documentary, animation, experimental film, artist’s film, video art, screen dance or video poetry.
The Bioscope, Arts on Main, on December 11 at 3pm.
? To coincide with the annual 16 Days of Activism campaign, a number of organisations, including the department of arts and culture and the United Nations, have joined creative forces to host a film festival titled From the Bedroom to the Battlefield.
The festival will be accompanied by a programme of workshops and seminars on gender and filmmaking, prejudice, violence and pornography. Films include, among others, A Love during the War — about wartime rape crimes — by Cameroonian Osvalde Lewat-Hallade and the Ghanaian- inspired documentary The Witches of Gambaga by Yaba Badoe.
Main Theatre, Market Theatre Complex, until December 10. For additional venues and schedules call 011 648 6903 or visit: www.un.org/en/women/endviolence/.