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This is not a burial, it's a resurrection
Title
This is not a burial, it's a resurrection / director, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.
ISBN
9798886070095
Edition
Special edition.
Publication
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.
Full screen.
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 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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Sotho
Added to Catalog
January 31, 2023
Series
Criterion collection
Cast
Mary Twala Mhlongo, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele.
System details note
Blu-ray, full screen; 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player.
Videorecording number
CC3433BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Also listed under
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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