Norient presents a series of film screenings at the cinema Il Cinemino in Milan, Italy.
The African Cypher
November 3, 2022
South Africa 2012, 90 mins
English with Italian subtitles
a film by Bryan Little
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«I dance as if I have a gun to my head» says Mada Sthembiso from the Shakers and Movers pantsula dance crew. Without a doubt, pantsula is more than a South African street dance: pantsula is existential. It’s a competition. It’s social commentary, born in the Fifties as a resistance to the Apartheid regime. It also builds self-confidence and communities by helping to get people off the streets and away from crime. And: it helps to impress girls. The African Cypher meets ambitious dancers of pantsula and other dance styles such as b-boying and crumping, taking a deep, unclichéd, and manifold look at life in the South African townships.
Contradict: Ideas for a New World
November 10, 2022
Switzerland/Ghana 2020, 80 mins
English with Italian subtitles
a film by Thomas Burkhalter and Peter Guyer
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In the streets of Accra, two friends raise money for poor people in the United States. Is it for fun, political provocation, or is it a prophecy? Two Swiss filmmakers will answer these questions with the help of seven musicians from Ghana – M3nsa, Wanlov The Kubolor, Adomaa, Worlasi, Akan, Mutombo Da Poet, and Poetra Asantewa – who have written new songs and produced video clips for the documentary film Contradict. Tomorrow’s ideas and trends are emerging more decentralized than ever in a globalized world.
Les Contes de Cockatoo
November 17, 2022
Switzerland 2020, 44 mins
French with Italian subtitles
a film by Varnish la Piscine and Rhony Sutriesno
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A story of ordinary people experiencing extraordinary things. It is the first film by Geneva-based rapper Varnish La Piscine aka Pink Flamingo, an absurd masterpiece of false nonchalance and pure creativity.
The F.r.iction Show
November 17, 2022
France 2021, 81 mins
English/French with English subtitles
a video collage by Gystère and Eden Tinto Collins
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For the Norient Festival, multi-disciplinary artists Gystère and Eden Tinto Collins created a feature-length video collage. In The F.r.iction Show they wish, through fiction, to expose a combination of images and a multitude of points of view. The work is inspired by the denkyem, one of the Adinkra symbols of the Akan people. It is the one that holds the attention and the ethical and spiritual direction of the main thread of this film-collage. This symbol takes part of the «logo» Gystère and Eden created «vous l’aurez voulu». Denkyem means unity in diversity. The F.r.iction Show juxtaposes the creations of both Gystère and Eden Tinto Collins as the result of a global reflection in process around a musical identity borrowed from different Afro-Eurasian cultures. But it is also a proposal of context for this music to emerge, out of the Space.
Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai
November 24, 2022
USA, Niger 2015, 85 mins
Tamasheq with Italian subtitles
a film by Christopher Kirkley
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The first feature film in the Tuareg language accompanies a young guitarist in Niger who wants to assert himself against all the adversities of the world. A remake of Prince’ Purple Rain without the word purple, which does not exist in the Tuareg language: «Blue rain, with little red in it».
