South Africa / 2018 / 8mins / Dance film, Documentary / English

This two-part suite of site-specific dance films is set in Grahamstown, South Africa. Part I, Oscar’s Journey, features a deeply personal solo performance by Oscar Buthelezi, the first African choreographer to win the prestigious Kurt Jooss Prize. In Part II, Child’s Play, Lorin Sookool and Julia Wilson attempt to reclaim and re-imagine suffering in a virtual duet at the Old Gaol, this site where thousands of black South Africans were imprisoned.

Mark Freeman

Mark Freeman is a Professor of Television, Film and New Media in the School of Theatre, Television and Film at San Diego State University. He has produced and directed, written and edited programs for broadcast on American public television. Freeman’s films have won numerous awards including a Gold Apple at the National Educational Film and Video Festival, a Certificate of Merit at the Chicago International Film Festival and a Red Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival. They are in the collection of libraries and universities throughout the country, and have screened at museums including the Museo do Oriente (Lisbon), Weltmuseum (Vienna), Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History, the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art (NY). Learn More