Dineo Bopape




Under All Means Necessary / South Africa / 2006 / 4'35 / 4:3

A woman shakes her head slowly, looking to and away from the viewer/camera. What appears to be passive refusal slowly gathers speed and proceeds into a full-tilt frenzy of head shaking, a maddened refusal. As the film proceeds, the image, in constant and increasingly frantic movement, breaks down into a disco of dots, pixels, abstracted lines, shapes and colors. The score, an inter-woven, sped-up, doubled, slowed down, sniped mix of sounds - drumbeats, footsteps, audience cheers and songs layered in an orchestral mess/harmony - amplifies the violent shake-up going on on the screen.