Après Fokofpolisiekar, un documentaire consacré à cinq punk rockers africains, le jeune réalisateur et producteur sud-africain Bryan Little a traversé son pays à la rencontre de danseurs hip-hop. Il livre dans The African Cypher un portrait sans concession de la jeunesse des townships, pauvre mais incroyablement créative.
Primé au dernier festival de Durban (Prix du meilleur documentaire), ce film vibrant d’énergie brute donne un bel exemple de l’effervescence culturelle des mégapoles africaines. Après avoir conquis le public de Brazzaville, The African Cypher sera projeté en exclusivité en France dans le cadre d’Étonnants Voyageurs.
"The African Cypher"_ Official Theatrical Trailer from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.
IN ENGLISH
"Bryan Little is a social retard" - GQ magazine
His greatest achievement is spending a long weekend with Werner Herzog in a New Jersey Motel.
A born storyteller, Bryan seems to soak up everything around him ; and with a sensitive eye and skilled hands has the ability to deliver to his audience a work of art - no matter the subject.
His latest feature documentary ‘The African Cypher’, has been critically acclaimed in numerous local and international publications and has had an enthusiastic public response, playing to sold out audiences.
Bryan co-founded Fly on the Wall productions with Filipa Domingues (producer) and Grant Appleton (Cinematographer) in 2004.
- Awards / Commendations
African Cypher - Best South African Documentary - Durban International Film Festival
African Cypher - Audience Award Best South African Film - Encounters International Documentary Festival
National Geographic Channel - Best Brand Commercial (Europe), Best Director worldwide - Promax Europe
Fokofpolisiekar - Audience award Best South African Film - Encounters International Documentary Festival
Sub_Urban Magazine - Grand Prix Award - Design Indaba international Design conference
Mail&Gaurdian - top 200 young South Africans 2011
Shots international showreel / up-and-coming top 50 directors in the world.In her keynote address at the Goethe-Institut’s Über (W) unden Art in Troubled Times conference, ‘On the Pain of Death’, South African writer-poet Antjie Krog offered the following insight : that perhaps the only thing that art can do is “to try to transform pain into a kind of beauty so that one, at times, can live with loss”. It’s an apt observation and perhaps one that applies somewhat to Bryan Little’s moving feature-length documentary, The African Cypher.
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