Jaco Bouwer

Gaia

Jaco Bouwer

Monique Rockman, Carel Nel

A park ranger takes shelter with two survivalists after an attack by mysterious creatures in a primordial forest.

Rage

Jacob Bouwer, Jaco Bouwer

Jane de Wet, Carel Nel

What is supposed to be the best holiday of their lives turns to horror as a group of teenagers is picked off one by one in a small coastal village.

Balbesit

Jaco Bouwer

A play about rugby by Saartjie Botha.

I Love You Jet Li

Stacy Hardy, Jaco Bouwer

Taking us into what for Mark Augé is the ultimate non-place - an airport waiting lounge - Stacy Hardy and Jaco Bouwer provide still more proof of supermodernity's failure to do away with organic social life. Granted, the space we enter with them is not one of healthy connections between human beings encountering each other in a functional polis. Clearly, theirs is a world of radical disconnects. At the same time, however, it is a world in which people invent highly idiosyncratic lives for themselves - if there is one thing missing here it is precisely uniformity - and in which imaginaries go haywire. Indubitably, the Hardy/Bouwer airport lounge is a dystopian space and this space, it seems fair to say, functions as a synecdoche for a larger social condition. But dystopia here stands in radical opposition to uniformity and it is determined to break the mold of late capitalist habitus (Dominique Malaquais, SPARCK).

Rooiland

Jaco Bouwer

A gritty prison drama, a story about stories, memories inherited become weapons in the mouths of prisoners. Four men in a cramped cell struggle for space to sleep, sit, speak, think. When everyone screams at once, a strange truth emerges.

This Country is Lonely

Jaco Bouwer

RATGIRL is the digital avatar of artist Jazzard Jaslyn, who crafts endurance performance pieces staged through Instagram stories which re-enact indignities still faced by marginalised people in post-apartheid South Africa. But this country is lonely is most concerned with the dehumanising and flattening effect social media has on our understanding of complex humanitarian crises.