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"The creative street vibes of South Africa"

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"The creative street vibes of South Africa"

By
Sean Jacobs

On Saturday,  26 March at the Swedish CinemAfrica Festival the film directors Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft of Stocktown TV will premiere their ode to new South African hipsters:”Stocktown South African Roadmovie,” a 28 minute film that “sets out to capture the creative street vibes of South Africa.”  Some of the hipster acts featured in the film include heavy metal band Ree-burth, photographer Musa Nxumalo, Johannesburg”style setters” Smarteez, video gamers label 2bop, rappers Die Getuies [The Witnesses], filmmaker Ebrahim Hajee, and the music of Dirty Paraffin and Gazelle. More information and updates here and here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6qbZ5r0Se0

* “The first Stocktown documentary series was produced in 2003: a collage of streetculture and urban inventions from Japan, USA, Australia and Europe.” For Africa, Stocktown has also done editions for Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Ghana.

Via Samra Ghermay

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