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The Moment of Dying
Project Type
Installation
Date
2021
Official Selection
Toronto International Women Festival
Cannes International Cinema Festival
New Wave Short Film Festival
Winner of the Best Experimental Film at the New Wave Short Film Festival
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Credits
Written and Directed: Kanya Viljoen
Produced by: Unusual Bones x Frikken Films
Director of Photography: Liese Kuhn
Starring: Andi Colombo, Gretchen Ramsden, Kathleen Stephens, Laura-Lee Mostert, Naledi Majola
Voice Artist: Puleng Stewart
Hair and Make-Up Artist: Saarah Harris
Editor: Liese Kuhn
Special Thanks to: Caroline Calburn and the Theatre Arts
Watch Here
A moment of dying starts as soon as the fish is removed from the water.
And it’s not fast.
It’s not an instant moment where they move from being alive, to being dead.
It takes time.
The lungs need to fail.
The body needs to convulse and fight.
It takes time.
To die.
Five women find themselves in a public bathroom in Cape Town, South Africa, some occupying the stalls while others wait to use it. In a shared private moment, thoughts start to emerge about the ‘otherness’ found within our own bodies and how we perceive them in these vulnerable spaces, whilst gazing upon the bodies around us as well. This experimental short seeks to question the notion around how we ‘wear’ our bodies and how women stand in relation to other women as well as their own skin.
