Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 10, Catalogue 2021

RAS VKHEDAVT,
RODESAC CAS
VUKUREBT?
The Kingdom of Lesotho is an enclave within
the territory of South Africa: a tiny state, whose
most important natural resource is water. One of
the country's most important economic resources
are dams. This explains the dimensions of what
is at stake in This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resuirrection,
when an old woman refuses to leave her house and
her land to make way for the next dam, which will
drown her village as well as the cemetery and
bury all the dead and their immortal souls under
water. For Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, This Is Not
a Burial, It's a Resurrection marks a homecoming: after
his gangster action thriller Khapha tsa Mali (2007),
he left Lesotho to go to Berlin, where he reoriented
himself artistically: while his essay film Mother,
I am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You (2019)
demonstrated his admiration for Chris Marker
and Harun Farocki, every image and sound of
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection – as well as the
film's splendour and verve – reveal his love of both
Soviet cinema and his sub-Saharan predecessors.
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· This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
· South Africa/Italy/USA/Lesotho 2019
· 120 min. Colour. DCP. Sesotho/e
· Director, Screenplay, Editing:
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
· Cinematography: Pierre de Villiers
· Music: Yu Miyashita
· With Mary Twala, Jerry Mofokeng,
Makhaola Ndebele
· Producer: Cait Pansegrouw
· Contact for Switzerland: trigon film,
Ennetbaden, www.trigon-film.org
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THU 17.6. 18:45
kult.kino atelier
SAT 19.6. 13:00
kult.kino atelier
In the presence of Lemohang
Jeremiah Mosese
THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A
RESURRECTION