Keiskamma: A Story of Love
Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday February 11, 2008
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de maisonneuve
South Africa / 2007 / 90min
This screening is co-presented by UMOJA Concordia, who will be speaking at the screening.
The South African village of Hamburg is home to many HIV and AIDS patients, most of whom are young orphans whose parents have fallen victim to the disease. In cinéma vérité style, Keiskamma follows the amazing struggle of the village women to save the children, concentrating on two individuals in particular. General practitioner Dr. Carol has been paying house calls to sick children for years. She even hospitalizes them in her own house, allowing them to stay with her for as long as they need to get better.
Then there is Eunice, a big, kind, generous woman who is so busy running the hospice she forgets to take care of herself. By means of parallel editing, we follow their dramatic encounters with sick children and their relatives, but also the story of 130 village women who decided to work together on a piece of art. They sewed a massive tapestry that narrates the history of the village's struggle with the AIDS epidemic, and is now travelling the world as an altarpiece. The tapestry attests to the fact that human love and caring can save the lives of many innocent children.
Director:Miki Redelinghuys
Photography:Kyle O Donoghue, Miki Redelinghuys, Tim Wege
Editing:Ronelle Loots
Sound:Kyle O Donoghue, Zukiswa Pakama, Miki Redelinghuys, Tim Wege
Music:Charl-Johan Lingenfelder
Production:Lauren Groenewald for Plexus Films
Screening copy:Plexus Films
Filmography:Miki Redelinghuys: Bathing (1997), Fire and the Crescent Moon (1999), Africa Designs (2000), Gangsters & Bioscopes (2001), All about Art (2004)
