Masters of Art / Nandi, Java and Uuka are students at a Cape Town university, where they are enrolled in a
film making course. Adela, their lecturer, will supervise their screenplay and film on a story
which depicts the experience of the loss of land in South Africa. They are however also
deeply involved in student protests for free university education for all. When the
#feesmustfall protests reach a deadlock at their university and the university is temporarily
closed, they decide to leave for the Eastern Cape to look for a story. There they stay with
Uuka’s grandparents and spend their time trying to understand the family history and the
family’s ownership of land, as well as the broader history of land dispossession. They do not
only discover more about Uuka’s ancestors and about distant history, but also about
themselves. As the characters delve more deeply into the past in their search for a story for a
screenplay, the margins between their own stories and the screenplay shift and merge, as do
the forms of novel and screenplay
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/8677 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Conradie, Ina |
| Contributors | Vandermerwe, Meg |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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