In \u2019n dorre distopiese toekoms in die jaar 2044, waar die w\u00eareld om oorlewing veg onder die moeilike omstandighede van \u2019n kritieke waterskaarste, word Kaapstad soos nog nooit tevore in die film uitgebeeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie film is gebaseer op \u2019n ou Afrikaanse legende en die mees opwindende ding is dat ons hierdie legende lewe kan gee in \u2019n post-apokaliptiese toekomsw\u00eareld. Die w\u00eareld van Spelonk is een wat ons selde op skerms sien, veral in Suid-Afrika. Die pragtige Kaapstad wat ons ken en liefhet, word getransformeer as die agtergrond van die futuristiese film.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 gesels Desmond Denton, die skrywer en regisseur van die fliek, vanuit Amerika.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Geborge Kapenaars sal flitse van s\u00f3 \u2019n post-apokaliptiese werklikheid in die film danksy Dag Zero in 2019 vaagweg herken en dit is juis di\u00e9 ervaring wat Denton se verbeelding so \u2019n aanskoulike fondament kon bied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHoewel Spelonk v\u00f3\u00f3r Dag Zero gekonseptualiseer is, het die eerstehandse ervaring van Kaapstad se waterkrisis vir my \u2019n n\u00f3g dieper verbintenis met die film se temas gegee. Dag Zero was meer as net \u2019n logistieke nagmerrie \u2013 dit was \u2019n psigologiese en sosiale gebeurtenis wat die broosheid van die moderne lewe blootgel\u00ea het. Toe die krane opdroog, het mense nie net vir water gesukkel nie; hulle is deur \u2019n rou, oervrees in die gesig gestaar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierdie krisis het lae van realisme en dringendheid tot Spelonk bygedra, meen hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel die storie nooit direk oor Dag Zero gegaan het nie, het die ervaring Denton se toewyding verdiep om stories te vertel wat onsigbare stryd uitbeeld \u2013 die soort wat agter geslote deure afspeel, in stil oomblikke van twyfel, of in die gesig van onsigbare bedreigings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSpelonk is ge\u00efnspireer deur \u2019n diep liefde vir geskiedenis, folklore<\/em> en die skepping van Suid-Afrikaanse films wat grense kan oorbrug. Al hierdie elemente is daar en tog was daar een sleutelkomponent wat dit nog altyd aangedryf het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Denton koester sy kinderjare in Bellville-boekwinkels en onthou nog die verhale wat hom in algehele verwondering in sy verbeeldingsw\u00eareld meegevoer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy loopbaan wat hom tans oor die w\u00eareld heen neem, het op akademiese vlak by die Laerskool Totius begin, toe die Ho\u00ebrskool DF Malan, waarna hy in grafiese kunste en kunsgeskiedenis by die Tygerberg-kunssentrum gefloreer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDeur my skooljare het ek soggens vroeg op my fiets geklim om kopie\u00eb van die Die Burger in Welgemoed af te lewer \u2013 vanaf die ouderdom van 13 jaar tot aan die einde van my skoolloopbaan. Ek onthou nog hoe ek al die koerante afgelewer en teen 06:00 die oggend weer tuis was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns het gekies om Afrika, spesifiek Suid-Afrika, in \u2019n apokaliptiese fantasielandskap uit te beeld omdat ons glo dit is \u2019n betowerende land, ryk aan geskiedenis en wonderlike stories. En deur dit te verken, betree ons \u2019n nuwe rigting in filmkuns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die film is geprys vir dapper storievertelling, treffende kinematografie en meeslepende w\u00eareldbou, wat bewys dat Suid-Afrikaanse wetenskapsfiksie sy plek op die internasionale verhoog verdien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMet internasionale verspreiding reeds verseker, maak die film reeds \u2019n indruk \u2013 nie net weens sy boeiende narratief nie, maar ook vir sy unieke dubbeltaal-produksie verfilm in beide Afrikaans en Engels, met twee heeltemal afsonderlike na-produksiespanne, unieke toonsetting en spesifiek geslypte redigering, wat dit \u2019n seldsame vermaaklike ervaring maak,\u201d verduidelik Denton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In die hart van Spelonk se werklikheid is Dante (vertolk deur Eric Uys), \u2019n eens lojale milit\u00eare bevelvoerder wat in \u2019n eensame oorlewende verander het. Met die opdrag om orde te handhaaf in \u2019n w\u00eareld waar water die nuwe geldeenheid is, kruis Dante se pad met die Kaapse Rebelle, \u2019n faksie wat veg vir die reg op die lewe se mees noodsaaklike hulpbron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHierdie ontmoeting dwing Dante om die ideale wat hy eens gehandhaaf het, te bevraagteken, en dit stel \u2019n reeks gebeure in werking wat die lot van Kaapstad sal bepaal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWelkom in \u2018n w\u00eareld wat tot niet is. 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Fantasielandskap<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Post-apokaliptiese Kaapstad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n