Ancestral Visions of the Future
Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / Feature Experimental or Essay / France, Germany, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / 90 min / Original Language: English / Interests: Experimental
Synopsis
At the heart of this cinematic ode lies the director’s biographical journey—a deeply personal exploration of identity, childhood, death, and exile through the eyes of a puppeteer, a mother, a boy, a farmer, and a city. Across fifteen years spent in exile, the director finds himself suspended between worlds, neither rooted nor free, wholly here nor there. It is as if an unseen hand perpetually pulls the earth from beneath his feet, casting him into a ceaseless spiral of elusive matter, always beyond his grasp, teetering on the precipice of madness. The essay does not aim to distinguish reality from image, world from screen, or the tangible from the elusive. Instead, it remains faithful to the kind of experience cinema evokes: the sense of a life beyond or between oneself and others, unravelling in a world that is already cinema.
Credits
- Director
- LEMOHANG MOSESE
- Screenwriter
- LEMOHANG MOSESE
- Producer
- MARIE BALDUCCHI
- Production Company
- AGAT FILMS & CIE MOKOARI STREET MEDIA SEERA FILMS
About the Director
"Lemohang Mosese is a Berlin-based filmmaker and visual artist from Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho. His works intricately examine identity and its fluid nature in relation to time. Mosese’s art is a layered exploration of the cycles of life, death, and rebirth, framed through the lens of human subjectivity. His feature-length visual essay ‘Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You’ premiered at the Berlinale in 2019 and continues to be showcased at film festivals and exhibitions. His first narrative film, ‘This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’, won over 30 awards, including the Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking at Sundance 2020. Mosese also works as a visual artist, creating installations for esteemed art institutions such as MoMA, Eye Museum, and HKW in Berlin. He has served as an official juror for several prominent film festivals, including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, FESPACO, San Sebastián, and DOK Leipzig.
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Contacts
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Main Contact
Marie Balducchi
- Company:
- AGAT Films & CIE
- Phone:
- + 33 6 76 87 35 16
- Email:
- marie.balducchi@agatfilms.com