God’s Land / South Africa / 2009 / 2’15 / 4:3
In Highlands Hill, Yeoville, a neighborhood in an inner city of Johannesburg, hundreds of worshippers gather daily to pray. This causes friction with the municipality, which has earmarked the area for housing re-development. The City Parks authority has designated the Hill as a “no prayer” zone and threatened mass arrests. By altering existing exclusionary signposts on the Hill and focusing his camera work on the footfalls of a man walking freely across it, the filmmaker, an urban geographer, highlights social injustice issues that pit the spiritual needs of local communities against mainstream development.
Lowave Innovative Creative Projecs Paris / Sinagapore