Based on a story by Mtutuzeli Matshoba, the film was banned under the State of Emergency Act. A deeply disturbing meditation on prison labour, forced to work on the farms, the film is both disturbing and poetic.
THE HIDDEN FARMS
Director: Ken Kaplan
1986, 15 minutes, video.
FESTIVALS
✮ 2011 - Anthology Film Archives (New York) - April 2011
* This screening is part of: UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID