This exciting world premiere by Rèunion director Nikunja and Namibian born actress and 2006 “Face of Africa” model, Venantia Otto, is about the search of human existence, the origins of human culture and man’s will to create. Shot on location in the Namib Desert, the individual is confronted by the universal, fashion by timelessness, the moment by the eternal, space by eternity. Herein, believes Nikunja, lies the link between the existential and the philosophical, the spiritual and the mundane, creating a specific awareness for the eye of the camera as the centre of being - the spectator watching the film. Thus a car ride to the desert becomes an invocation of the eternal recognition of the never ending interconnection between the ancestors and the children, the past and the ever self-inventing future, the origin and self-destruction of all as the utmost evolutionary comprehension of self effacement, hoping to achieve an art experience between film and performance, where fiction is document and vice versa, and non-existence and existence become one as the ultimate ecstasy of being.
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