voices of the drylands attie gerber
VOICES OF THE DRYLANDS
The exhibition documents the behaviour and lifestyles of peoples that may be described as traditionally authentic.How and where do these people live? What is it like to live in a stockpost shelter? What is unique and traditional about the way stockpost herders prepare their food? What natural remedies do they use for different illnesses? How do they make (traditional) music? Which traditional dance forms do they still pursue? This exhibition tried to answer these questions.
VOICES OF THE DRYLANDS - DOCUMENTARY 2006
This documentary tackles the issue of desertification and how subsistence farmers in Namaqualand, Bokkeveld, Molopo and the southern Kalahari experience and counter the problem of encroaching desertification.
Produced by Liesl-Dana van Schalkwyk for her MA in Communication Practice (Documentary Video) – 2006. It was showcased for the first time at the annual conference of the Global Environment Fund (GEF) in Cape Town in August 2006. It was selected for a retrospective film festival by the United Nations in Rome as the climax of its Year of Desertification in 2006. It was commissioned by the UN’s Desert Margins Program. In 2007 the film was screened in Nu Metro Theatres in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
It was nominated for the Roscar Awards held by the international Wild Talk Film Festival in Durban. The documentary was subsequently screened at venues in Spain, Germany, Slovenia and was a category nominee for the international Sichuan TV-festival in China (2012) for which it was re-edited and entered as The Barren Invader. Liesl-Dana received the award as the best masters student of the NWU’s Potchefstroom campus in 2006. English narration, Afrikaans interviews with English subtitles.
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