CHRIS THURMAN: Finding the extraordinary in the most ordinary
In ‘The Water Rats’, SA artists present a tale about people finding one another in locked-down London
In last week’s column I told you about Beyond the Light Barrier, a documentary by Uga Carlini being screened as part of the expanded film programme at this year’s Hilton Arts Festival. Underlying this entertaining foray into the slightly cooky territory of aliens and UFOs is an ancient theme — the search for connection with something beyond oneself.
Carlini’s subject, Elizabeth Klarer, imagined an extraterrestrial lover and purveyed her cosmic fantasy to the world. Beyond the Light Barrier is neatly counterpointed by a very different film in Greig Coetzee and Jillian Edelstein’s The Water Rats, which will have its African premier at Hilton. Coetzee and Edelstein present a tale that is mundane in the best sense: it is very much “of this world”, an understated and simple tale about people who find one another in locked-down London and become a steadfast group of friends...
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