This is not a burial, it's a resurrection / Urucu, Artscope -- a Memento Films International Label, and La Biennale de Venezia present ; written and directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese ; produced by Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Mosonngoa Behemoth, or The game of God Mother, I am suffocating. This is my last film about you
Notes:
Title from title frames and credits. Mary Twala Mhlongo, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele. Originally released as a motion picture in 2019. Full screen. Special features: New audio commentary featuring Mosese and Cait Pansegrouw; moses's short films: Mosonngoa; Behemoth: Or the Game of God, along with his 2019 essay film Mother, I am suffocating; This is my last film about you, with a new introduction by Mosese; essay by Zakes Mda.
Summary:
With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her death and to be buried alongside her ancestors. When plans for a new dam near her village in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho threaten to wash away all she holds dear, Mantoa takes a last stand, mobilizing her neighbors to fight for their land and their way of life. The experience of watching Mosese's visionary, much-lauded This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection is as timeless and elemental as the land itself.
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