Film & Animation/2010/8 min/Reel № 10.001
ByOliver Hermanus
Oliver Hermanus on his film "Shirley Adams"
Let It Out!/Recorded 2010
A close reading, kept within reach.
Oliver Hermanus takes film & animation as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Oliver's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus talks about the construction of characters for his film "Shirley Adams".
About the speaker
Oliver Hermanus
Cape Town/South Africa
Oliver Hermanus is a South African filmmaker, best known for his films Shirley Adams and Skoonheid.
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