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South Africa has already proved it can build science-fiction worlds.
The harder question is who gets to imagine them.
In Abongwe L. Booi’s The Last Insurgent, the country reaches 2042 under a totalitarian government increasingly shaped by foreign technology corporations.
Ntobeko Sishi plays Lethu Mashatile, an insurgent who wakes wounded on a battlefield surrounded by the bodies of his comrades.
The immediate question is whether he survives.
The larger one is about power.
Who controls technological progress?
Who makes decisions about a country’s future?
And what happens when the people living with those decisions no longer believe they have any power over them?
Booi’s ambition extends beyond the film itself.
South African crews have helped build major science-fiction productions before. He wants African filmmakers to have the creative and financial power to author those futures too.
The Last Insurgent is now being positioned for international festival circulation, with Booi hoping its world can eventually expand into a feature.
The future he imagines is frightening.
The right to imagine it from here is the point.
Read the full feature at viranova.co.za or click the link in our bio.
#TheLastInsurgent #NtobekoSishi #SouthAfricanFilm #AfricanCinema #Viranova
The harder question is who gets to imagine them.
In Abongwe L. Booi’s The Last Insurgent, the country reaches 2042 under a totalitarian government increasingly shaped by foreign technology corporations.
Ntobeko Sishi plays Lethu Mashatile, an insurgent who wakes wounded on a battlefield surrounded by the bodies of his comrades.
The immediate question is whether he survives.
The larger one is about power.
Who controls technological progress?
Who makes decisions about a country’s future?
And what happens when the people living with those decisions no longer believe they have any power over them?
Booi’s ambition extends beyond the film itself.
South African crews have helped build major science-fiction productions before. He wants African filmmakers to have the creative and financial power to author those futures too.
The Last Insurgent is now being positioned for international festival circulation, with Booi hoping its world can eventually expand into a feature.
The future he imagines is frightening.
The right to imagine it from here is the point.
Read the full feature at viranova.co.za or click the link in our bio.
#TheLastInsurgent #NtobekoSishi #SouthAfricanFilm #AfricanCinema #Viranova
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