The Other Violence - Silence

An ongoing series that investigates the moment a new reality occurs and attempts to capture the weight of this experience.

By suspending time, we can remove ourselves from the narrative and find the silence, and the focus, that makes us part of the moment, an incident, or smaller: an aesthetic. It allows us to wander through an image. Stimulating new thoughts, rather than imposing meaning

I want the work to take a step outside itself, and detach  from its original narrative. A paused adventure game, where everything lives, but nothing moves and characters seem to be stuck in a moment that nobody watches.

“The bus had left only at dawn from the end of the rail line and for two hours in the cold morning it had been advancing on a stony, desolate, plateau which, in the beginning at least, extended its straight lines all the way to reddish horizons. But the wind had risen and gradually swallowed up the vast expanse. From that moment on, the passengers had seen nothing more; one after an-other, they had ceased talking and were silently progressing in a sort of sleepless night, occasionally wiping their lips and eyes irritated by the sand that filtered into the bus.”
- Albert Camus, ’The Adulterous Woman’.


Exhibition Baerum Kunsthall Oslo


‘The Other Violence - Silence’
1 channel video, 2019, HD, Colour, 18min.

Cast
Jonathan Zondani
Dylan Feltcher
Nicholas Salonan
Leanne Muganiwa
Leroy Petzer
Jessica-Joy Chapstick-Dale
Jethro Jaftha

Producer Marius van de Weerd @ CZAR, 
David Leite and Helen Atty @ With Milk
Director Michaël I. Sewandono 
Camera and Edit Michaël I. Sewandono
Music Ruben Samama
Sound Design Ruben Samama
Colour by Cem Ozkilicci
Line Producer Jerome Williams
Production Coordinator Simone Sutton
Assistant Director Andre Eksteen
1st Camera Assistant Ken Belter
2nd Camera Assistant Buti Bakoena
Gaffer Quinton Pretorious
MUH & Wardrobe Denita Goosen
Medic / Unit Manager Gerald Delport
Chaperone Yusree van der Schyff
Camera/Grips/Lighting Gear Panavision and Panalux Cape Town
Unit Gear Karlage Unit & Film Location Management

Thanks to Floris Schönfeld, Paal Rui and Jakob Paulik @ Imposter,
William Schaad and Robert Jota @Uhoert