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Title Real stories from a free south. Umgidi (shadow dancing).

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 75 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2004.
Summary When Sipho, a former Robben Island inmate for 5 years gets a call from his father to help convince his reluctant younger brother to get circumcised, he procrastinates. Then he gets an anguished letter from this brother Vuyo, informing him that he finally discovered he was adopted at birth. Vuyo is in crisis and is convinced that Sipho knows the truth about his biological parents. Sipho returns to Cape Town to help his brother. Sipho was covertly circumcised in the Robben Island prison but failed to perform the full ceremony so he decides to do so now. Meanwhile, Vuyo announces that he is gay which throws the family into confusion. On the eve of the circumcision ceremony, he attempts suicide. This 'acting out' effectively deflects attention from Sipho's ceremony. The film explores a family and a country trying to embrace both modernity and tradition. While Sipho struggles to help his brother accept his roots, his brother desperately wants to escape them. This extraordinary film is made even more complex by the fact that it is filmed by Sipho's wife who happens to be a white woman, both outsider and insider in this tight-knit family drama.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Singiswa, Sipho.
Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Circumcision -- South Africa -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Schütte, Gillian, film director.
Singiswa, Sipho, film director.
Kanopy (Firm)
Added Title Umgidi (Shadow Dancing)
Music No. 1139783 Kanopy
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