RATGIRL is the digital avatar of artist Jazzard Jaslyn, who crafts endurance performance pieces staged through Instagram stories which re-enact indignities still faced by marginalised people in post-apartheid South Africa. But this country is lonely is most concerned with the dehumanising and flattening effect social media has on our understanding of complex humanitarian crises.
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Film details
- Productieland
- South Africa
- Jaar
- 2019
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2019
- Lengte
- 18'
- Medium/Formaat
- DCP
