Milisuthando | movie | 2023 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

Set in past, present, and future South Africa. An invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, | dG1fV1RtMUFTQkFBTmc

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00:00I prefer the night, yeah, it's the quiet I think that draws ideas nearer to the surface

00:20where I can hear them in their many voices when they choose to come.

00:30I've always written, I come from writers and poets and singers and decorators, so I kind

00:41of had no defences against art and its instructions.

00:49There was a library at home and films and a whole lot of not being allowed to go out.

00:56And we'd watch seven films a week from video land.

01:06My morning ritual usually involves me mourning the night, trying so hard to remember my dreams.

01:16In fact, over the last eight years this film was very much negotiated in dreams, with ancestors

01:23both old and coming.

01:26Who worked with me and my team.

01:29In many ways, I wasn't directing alone.

01:32Like, like if there's any love that my film tries to make sense of.

01:45It's not necessarily my love, but a love that must be expressed as a fact of existence.

01:55It's also a huge part of my artistic practice.

01:59What's that Tarkovsky quote?

02:02An artist with no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

02:07So, my name is Melissa Tando Pongela.

02:15Umlala hasumuelasu kigili.

02:17Ilene, kahazu nguenyu, uhbangezitu ngukela.

02:21Usvuunda mati igomo.

02:22Mbundi zunanazlinganukusuza.

02:25Umlalapwekazu ngele ngele.

02:26Go get a casa, you have to go na kele.