Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.
76 mins
The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passersby, outraged voices, pity and curious glances. Parallel to her, among a herd of sheep, a lamb toddles its way from the far away mountains into the heart of the city, only to find itself dangling, skinned and headless, on a butcher’s shoulder. In the meantime, under the scorching sun, in a roofless house, a woman is persistently knitting a garment, unwinding a thread coiled over her son’s face. ‘Mother, I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You’ is a symbolic social-political voyage of a society, spiralling between religion, identity and collective memory. “I saw in you what they saw, mother. You deserve your war”.
Guy James Cohen
Music
Teboho Edkins
Associate Producer
Kaizer Mats'umuyane
Assistant Camera
Sivan Ben Yishai
Script Editor
Innocent Fungurani
Script Editor
Thabiso Mohapeloa
Script Editor
Hanone Lisemeng
Makeup Artist
Hanone Lisemeng
Costumer
Mercy Koetle
Makeup Artist
Mercy Koetle
Costumer
Rantso Shadu
Production Design
Mashabushabu Mosese
Editorial Coordinator
Felix Trolldenier
Online Editor
Phillip Leteka
Sound
Guy James Cohen
Sound Mixer
Thakali Bochabela
Production Supervisor
Felix Trolldenier
Colorist