Excretapolitics
In Cape Town’s informal settlements, the government never built a sewage system, hence the absence of flush toilets. Each inhabitant must therefore devise an individualised solution to dispose of their excrement. Excretapolitics is a impressionistic documentary composed of portraits of the residents facing this infrastructural injustice.
Genre: Documentary
Languages: Xhosa, English, Afrikaans, Sesotho
Duration: 112 min
Year: 2023 (in post-production)
Director Yoel Meranda
Producers Xavier Rocher (La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma, France)
Co-Producers Bongiwe Selane (Blingola Media, South Africa)
Kristina Konrad (Welt Film, Germany)
Inspired by Masixole Feni’s photographs
Project Consultant Masixole Feni
Assistant Director Nahum Thulani Deke
Editors Tsholofelo Monare, Yoel Meranda
Translators Biko Ngcobo, Enathi Mqokeli
Graphic Design Sonwabo Valashiya
Sound Editing & Mix Emmanuel Soland
Color Grading Olivier Dassonville
Financed by CNC, CNAP, Tënk, Procirep-Angoa in France
Yeni Film Fonu in Turkey
Director Bio
Yoel Meranda was born in Istanbul in 1981. Four of his experimental videos were screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. His videos have also screened at international festivals such as Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Douarnenez and Lucca. His video installations were presented at New York White Box Gallery, Basilica Cistern, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, and Pera Museum. He produced Albüm, a Turkey-France-Romania-Germany co-production which won the Visionary Award at the Critics’ Week at Cannes 2016 and Best Feature Film at Sarajevo. Also produced the documentary The Pageant, a Turkey-France-Israel-Germany co-production which premiered in international competition at Visions du Réel 2020 and distributed by Grasshopper Films in North America. Yoel was selected for the Moulin d’Andé writing residency in 2018 for his first feature fiction film project, a contemporary adaptation of Balzac.
Director's Short Filmography
saldım çayıra... (my herd on a meadow...), experimental video, sound, 6 min, 2011
Commissioned for 2011 !f Istanbul & Ankara
2016 Douarnenez Festival de Cinéma
highway screening, experimental video, silent, 2 min, 2010
2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival - Experimental
moonalphabet, experimental video, silent, 2 min, 2010
2010 Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Last Year's Resolutions
straitscaping, experimental video, silent, 1 min, 2010
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
rauscht, experimental video, silent, 1 min, 2010
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
ascents in february, experimental video, sound, 3 min, 2010
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
not be or..., experimental video, silent, 2 min, 2009
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Contact
Yoel Meranda (Kamara)
Xavier Rocher (La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma)
Bongiwe Selane (Blingola Media)
Kristina Konrad (Welt Film)
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