Nyanda Yeni Music Video

Nyanda Yeni Music Video

The music video, directed and edited by The Straight Jacket Tailor, is composed completely of archival footage taken from apartheid-era cinema from South Africa. The images are borrowed from 1950s films and variety shows with some footage for 1970s propaganda films endorsing the notion of ‘separate development’. By taking apart old apartheid-era films and their fallacies of coonish fantasy, it slices and splices them in order to re-order their meanings. In other words, it subverts. Taking  us for a loop. Also included in the film are short video clips of the legendary, late Dr. Philip Tabane, creating an arch that links father and son in life, love and malombo.

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