This is not a burial, it's a resurrection

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Title

This is not a burial, it's a resurrection / director, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.

ISBN

9798886070101

Edition

Special edition; full screen.

Publication

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes

Full screen.

Title from disc surface.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

Special features: New audio commentary featuring Mosese and Cait Pansegrouw; moses's short films: Mosonngoa; Behemoth: Or the Game of God, along with his 2019 essay film Mother, I am suffocating; This is my last film about you, with a new introduction by Mosese; essay by Zakes Mda.

Sotho (Sesotho) dialogue; English subtitles.

Summary

With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her death and to be buried alongside her ancestors. When plans for a new dam near her village in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho threaten to wash away all she holds dear, Mantoa takes a last stand, mobilizing her neighbors to fight for their land and their way of life. The experience of watching Mosese's visionary, much-lauded This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection is as timeless and elemental as the land itself.

Variant and related titles

This is not a burial, it is a resurrection

Format

Images / Video & Film

Language

Sotho; English

Added to Catalog

January 31, 2023

Series

Criterion collection.

Criterion collection

Cast