An atmosphere of intense disquiet percolates through almost every frame of
This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, the edgy Sesotho feature by Lesotho-born, Berlin-based filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese. This fierce tension and accompanying sense of unease that Mosese captures with often rhapsodic beauty, exists in spite of the long periods of meditative stillness, states of inertia and pause that beset the film.
It is as though we are gazing at sacred paintings, studying portraits for clues to something prophetic and otherworldly. In the process, I suspect, we are being seduced by the film’s drugged-out rhythm, coaxed into a sense of that in-between state, somewhere between this physical realm and an ethereal alternative.
weekly newspaper.
Amy Jephta doesn’t like the limelight. The playwright-turned-screenwriter and now film director and TV showrunner shuns being fussed over to the extent that she refuses to let the publicist carry a chair outside for her when she’s being interviewed on set. “On the red carpet, I like the actors to be interviewed. That’s part of their job. I’ll stand back. I don’t feel I need to cultivate a particular brand for myself. I just need to know that people like my work and engage with it,” says Jephta.
“She’s a gem,” the publicist winks. “Going to go very far.”
Northern Cape Breton residents at disadvantage for access to vaccine, says MLA
The Nova Scotia MLA for Victoria-The Lakes says seniors living in northern Cape Breton are at a disdvantage when it comes to accessing the only COVID-19 vaccination clinic on the island.
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Keith Bain says people 80 and over should not have to travel six hours to get to COVID-19 clinic
Posted: Mar 12, 2021 5:28 PM AT | Last Updated: March 12
Keith Bain, the Progressive Conservative MLA for Victoria-The Lakes, says Nova Scotia s Liberal government needs to do more to help seniors in northern Cape Breton access the COVID-19 vaccine.(Michael Gorman/CBC)