SCENES FROM A TRANSIENT HOME

  • Director

    Roger Horn

  • Country, Year, Length

    South Africa/Zimbabwe, 2019, 13 min

  • Category

    Short Documentary

  • Format

    Digital (screening) – Super 8mm (shooting)

  • Festival Year

    2020

Crew: Producers: Roger Horn
Email: rogerhorn77@gmail.com

Synopsis
Filmed on Super 8mm, Scenes from a Transient Home presents a fractured portrait of life for Zimbabwean migrants when they travel back home to visit. Christmas dancing, New Years Eve celebrations, house floods, and illegal gold panning are just a few of the events filmed by Roger Horn who bookends the film with a major life event for his family.

Director
Roger Horn is a filmmaker and post-doctoral research associate at Freie Universität Berlin in the Visual & Media Anthropology MA program. His PhD in Social Anthropology is titled, “Memories, material culture, and methodology: Employing multiple filmic formats, forms, and informal archives in anthropological research among Zimbabwean migrant women” and included several accompanying films which have screened widely at festival such as the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and the 21st & 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festivals.

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