'Unhinged: Surviving Jo'burg' for February edition of iREP-GOETHE Monthly Screening

The Film will be screened fro 2pm on Saturday February 25 at the Nigerian Film Corporation Lagos Liaison Office, Obalende, Ikoyi Lagos (by Radio Nigeria). Gate: FREE

Unhinged: Surviving Jo’burg is an honest, quirky and sometimes frenzied documentary about Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city

and the world’s gateway to Southern Africa. With rapid narrative, dry humour, trivial factoids, insightful observations and a highly enjoyable soundtrack, the film tells a slice-of-city-life story. It’s a personal video snapshot of today’s city, providing a unique

opportunity for viewers to get a glimpse inside a place that the worldhas a very fuzzy sense of.

   

The film aims to give the audience a small taste of Johannesburg,using the city itself as the principle character. Adrian Loveland, an entrepreneur who was born and raised in Jo’burg, is the slightly

eccentric tour guide. Insights are provided through a selection of conversations with an engaging group of Jo’burgers, including Robbie Brozin (CEO of Nandos), Ferial Haffajee (editor of the City Press),

Justice Malala (political analyst) and Victor Kgomoeswana (MoneyBiz founder).

Johannesburg has often been portrayed in the world’s media as a death

trap, or marketed as the ultimate place of gold and opportunity. In

reality the city lies somewhere in between and, although Unhinged

doesn’t dish up all the answers, it gives a representation that

enables viewers to get closer to the truth of what Johannesburg really

is.                                                                   

In some parts the film feels like a documentary and in others a

travelogue. There are also segments, such as when Loveland delivers

his impressions of wild animal calls, which are pure comic relief.

Johannesburg itself is somewhat unhinged and so is this movie.

Unhinged acknowledges the scary aspects of Johannesburg, yet it leaves

the viewer feeling extremely positive and excited by the obvious

energy and potential of a city that has a lot of work ahead. In the

words of Robbie Brozin, one of the most charismatic of the interview

subjects: “You feel like, you’re here, so let’s, like, fix this place.

You can’t fix Paris, you can’t fix London, you can’t fix Sydney, but

you can fix Jo’burg”.

Writer/Director: Adrian Loveland

Producers: Adrian Loveland and Pascal Schmitz

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DVWorx Studios & Zuri24 Media,

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+234.8034251963

@femiodugbemi

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