In what could be best described as a slideshow formatted collection of smartly composed frames moving from apocalyptic awe to a grounded retrogress, Kantarama Gahigiri‘s Terra Mater – Mother Land boldly goes where no human being aught to go. Adhering to issue-orientated cinema, the Swiss-Rwandan filmmaker offers some striking visuals but makes a poetically rendered argument for instrumental changes in big issue problem like waste management. With Neptune Frost actress Cheryl Isheja in electronic trash warrior garb, the short is a summation also invites several other artists to contribute to the visual and sound poetry and makes for an evocatively illustrated message film about the world’s disconnect with how we consume and larger issues such as capitalism, colonialism and environmental destruction in Africa.…...
- 2/10/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Read More: Cannes Reveals This Year's Critics' Week Lineup; SXSW Winner 'Krisha' Makes the Cut Check out the first trailer for "DxM," in an Indiewire exclusive. "DxM" is the latest film from writer/director Andrew Goth ("Gallow Walkers," B.U.S.T.E.D.," "Cold and Dark") and producers Walter Köhler and Joanne Reay from Red Bull's cinema label Terra Mater Film Studios. Here's the official synopsis: "A group of young students attend a quantum science foundation known as DxM. They each study different disciplines, from quantum biology to bio-engineering but together, they are working on a group project — to develop a process that can bypass the human nervous system and so create a wireless neural network. Their aim is to restore mobility to Voltaire, a world-class free runner who broke his neck in an accident. Whilst pursuing this goal, our team discover something more. This wireless neural network, if connected via a quantum...
- 5/9/2015
- by Becca Nadler
- Indiewire
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