Hang onto the Rope with Your Mother
Running time: 24’46
Production Year: 2005
This documentary explores Main road between the Grande Parade and Muizenberg as a corridor of economic and social diversity. Over two hundred interviews were done with people who either live or work on the road , from informal traders to street sweepers to homeless people. The focus of this film is work and informal trading.
Senses of the Street
Running time: 17’05
Production Year: 2005
The second in the series which highlights the diversity and energy of people and places along the Main road of Cape Town stretching over 50 kilometres from Central town to Simonstown.
Short Stories from Klipfontein Road
Running time: 30’22
Production Year: 2006
This short documentary explores life on Klipfontein Road, a busy main arterial that stretches 20km linking the formerly racially segregated areas of Cape Town. The stories are gathered from over 100 interviews conducted on the road and focus on work, life, homelessness, the transport network, migrancy and crime. Through this documentary we meet the people who live and work on this road: the informal traders, the vegetable sellers, the fish mongers and the silencer repair men, to the police officers, school teachers, clergy, the migrant community and the unemployed. The documentary highlights and explores the interactions between life and work of these individuals.
“Soweto sneezed… and then we caught the Fever”
Running time: 55’07
Production Year: 2006
In 1976 thousands of school children marched to voice their anger and discontent at inferior black education which compelled them to learn in Afrikaans. These riots, which began in Soweto, quickly spread across the country and when the wave of revolt hit Cape Town, one of the main corridors of protest was Klipfontein road. This social history documentary explores individuals’ testimonies of the riots and political unrests in Cape Town and uses both current and archival footage of the unrests in the 1980's.
Urban Risk and Sustainable Development: Flooding and Fire on the Cape Flats
Running time: 38’40
Production Year: 2007
Every year, informal settlements on the Cape flats are ravaged by fires in the summer and floods in the winter. The effects of these disasters are compounded by a variety of factors: from global climate change, to the high migration rate to the city, lacking resources and poor social development. Interviews for this documentary were conducted with community members, affected by both floods and fires, as well as the City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management Centre, the Development Action Group and the Disaster Mitigation Programme for Sustainable Livelihoods.
“You’ll never forget Harfield” – Forced Removals from Lansdowne Road
Running time: 47’31
Production Year: 2007
The now affluent suburb of Harfield, used to be a coloured area, before its non-white residents were forcibly removed in 1969. This documentary takes a look back in time and interviews former residents of ‘the avenues’. Through their memories of childhood, the neighbourly community, high-school and growing up, as well as the sadness at being separated from friends and loved ones through the removals, the viewer is taken on a journey through the past.