>
> Proteus is a new dramatic historical film produced by two directors, one
South
> African and one Canadian, Jack Lewis and John Greyson, and funded by
agencies
> in their countries. The film is focused on South Africa circa 1730 and
the
> relationship there between an African (Khoi) man and a Dutch man, both
> prisoners--the first imprisoned for insulting a white settler and the
second
> imprisoned for sodomy. An essay on the film appears on Offscreen.com
>
> Offscreen.com, an online film journal dedicated to independent and
> international films, has just put up a new issue on its web site,
> www.offscreen.com.
>
> The new issue includes articles on Robert Bresson and Rainer W.
Fassbinder, as
> well as my own commentary on Kim Ki-Duk's Spring, Summer, and Alexander
> Sokurov's Father and Son, and Greyson and Lewis's Proteus. The three films
> I've written about deal with spirituality and ethics (Spring, Summer),
family
> and military life (Father and Son), and racial and sexual politics
(Proteus),
> and are set in South Korea, Russia, and South Africa. The essays reference
> Joseph Brodsky, Virginia Woolf, Plato, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Angela
Davis,
> and Thich Nhat Hahn; and consider character, plot, meaning, critical
> responses, and social contexts in exploring the films and often draw
> connections to contemporary life. I love film and think Spring, Summer and
> Father and Son are two of the best films I've seen in a long time.
>
> On Spring, Summer and Father and Son:
> http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/spring.html
>
> On Proteus:
> http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/Proteus.html
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