This short film explores identity and sexuality within the Afrikaans minority culture of post-Apartheid South Africa through a fable about two brothers who descend into matricide and madness on a remote ostrich farm.
Direction
Kallos crafts unbearable tension in vast, empty landscapes.
Cinematography
The Karoo desert becomes a character — merciless, biblical, beautiful.
Director
Etienne Kallos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kallos, himself Afrikaans, made this as his thesis film at Columbia — an outsider's return to interrogate the culture that formed him.
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