In 1959, maverick filmmaker Lionel Rogosin followed his landmark docufiction ON THE BOWERY by covertly filming on the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa under the false pretense that he was making an innocuous musical featuring South African performers. Instead, the film he made was COME BACK, AFRICA - a scathing indictment of the country's harsh apartheid policies. Shot in a lightly scripted, quasi-documentary style, the film follows a young Zulu man as he attempts to navigate an unforgiving bureaucracy to find work to support his estranged family. The resulting film is a neo-realist monument of wrenching humanism, as well as a historically indispensable document of daily life in the black township of Sophiatown - demolished shortly after filming to make way for white-exclusive housing.
Doors 7pm, Film 8pm
Arrive early for a pre-show exhibiton on the life and work of Director Lionel Rogosin
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4 years ago today… Dont give me grief on a typo folks..thanks
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The light and sound machine does not get enough love in the fan world relative to a couple of factors that might be easy to address…. Light and Sound Machine could easily be tied to the Green Seris of singles as a part of featuring clips out of film sound tracks or possibly live recordings at light and sound machine events such as that Cosmic Intergalactic Sound Presentation that I attended some years back… Committing stuf like that to vinyl is an untouched treasure trove of intellectually stimulating goodnss… I would love for the Upholsterers point of production and unique approach to having a band to be a green series release as well… The possibilities to return the novelty while bolstering the fanbase for this very unique and lovely event called the Light and Sound Machine is limitless in a very affordable way given that it encourages the open minds and variety of diversity regularly…. Who Knows…. Maybe even Third Man Books will see the Light and Sound Machine as an opportunity to explore poetry and prose in 2016 as a way to move all those perishable pages!!! Happy Spring TMR and Best of Belcourt in your future!!! Thanks for showing this fim!
Perfect Black Hiatory Celebration TMR Folk!!! heroic film of terrible beauty … Great quote by Scorcesse
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