Abstract
My short experimental film titled Jozi Rhapsody, which was created as the practical module for my master’s dissertation in film and television, is an audiovisual expression of movement as the carrier of multiple potentialities that drive transformation. I examine the ever mobile city of Johannesburg and the constant changes it has and continues to undergo, alongside those of the filmic medium through time. The aim is to fuse two idioms, those of the city and cinema, creating a “city film” that holds this unstable force of selfhood brought about by motion. The written work provided accompanies the short film in reflecting on a self in flux, and mobility as the central tenet to continual metamorphosis.
Highlights
a native migrant who comes to the city looking for work
first to give a visceral expression of Joburg
combining fictional film and documentary techniques to create the hybrid genre known as docufiction
Summary
In 1960 Lionel Rogosin released his film Come Back, Africa, which showcases the sights and sounds of Johannesburg through the eyes of Zacharia, a native migrant who comes to the city looking for work.[1].
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