Film and Johannesburg’s Ponte City
The German writer Norman Ohler described Johannesburg’s Ponte City, Africa’s tallest residential building, thus: “Ponte sums up all the hope, all the wrong ideas of modernism, all the decay, all the craziness of the city. It is a symbolic building, a sort of white whale, it is concrete fear, the tower of Babel, and yet it is strangely beautiful.” A new documentary by Ingrid Martens, Africa Shafted, adds to the wide variety of cultural and artistic interest in Ponte, home to a
Baltimore African Film Festival
Goucher College hosted this year’s Baltimore African Film Festival from Feb. 22 to 24. The festival’s lineup included an afternoon’s worth of films from South Africa, including Africa Shafted: Under One Roof (Ingrid Martens, 2011). A documentary about Johannesburg’s Ponte City–Africa’s tallest residential building–Africa Shafted explores the deeply-rooted xenophobia of some of the building’s residents. Martens filmed mostly from within the building’s eight elevator shafts, in
Screening at 1st Jozi Film Festival
Africa Shafted shown to a full house at The Biscope on the 11 February 2012 with the filmmaker in attendance. AFRICA SHAFTED UNDER ONE ROOF DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE) Sat, Feb 11, 11:00 to 12:00 The Bioscope Theatre AFRICA SHAFTED UNDER ONE ROOF (South Africa, 2011, 56 minutes) Director: Ingrid MartensQ&A with filmmaker will follow screening A poignant, humorous, and uplifting documentary filmed in Africa's tallest residential building located downtown Johannesburg, South Africa,
SABC Radio Interview
SABC RSG Radio Interview on Naweekaktueel Produced by Mètzi van der Merwe17 September 2011 Slideshow images from Ingrid Martens
