A most amazing and engaging festival of hurt, anguish, happiness, co-operation, enjoyment, celebration and transformation.
The film starts with a scene involving mine workers, then brings in an inter-sex character, who then goes on a journey, meeting several characters before we end up in a futurist collective living in a kind of self-sufficient farm commune, discussing their activism.
There are elements for those who need more Western references of Sun Ra, bass music, the type of collective discussion as discussed in hip hop and jazz literature such as Heble and Fischlin's Otherside of Nowhere, especially the chapter A Way Out of No Way Out by Mark Alexander Neal (a clue without too much of a spoiler - they don't necessarily make it out)
But really it should be watched as a film based in Burundi performed by Burundians telling the world about themselves.
It has song and dance throughout. And is a joy to watch.
The film starts with a scene involving mine workers, then brings in an inter-sex character, who then goes on a journey, meeting several characters before we end up in a futurist collective living in a kind of self-sufficient farm commune, discussing their activism.
There are elements for those who need more Western references of Sun Ra, bass music, the type of collective discussion as discussed in hip hop and jazz literature such as Heble and Fischlin's Otherside of Nowhere, especially the chapter A Way Out of No Way Out by Mark Alexander Neal (a clue without too much of a spoiler - they don't necessarily make it out)
But really it should be watched as a film based in Burundi performed by Burundians telling the world about themselves.
It has song and dance throughout. And is a joy to watch.