Post #347270 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Dec 2, 2007 3:02 AM

But, any real or imagined "desert deprivations" pale when viewing the following documentation- As announced:

WARNING! If you are easily grossed out by dead animal parts, and do not want to be bothered by images of poverty, do not scroll further, just wait for page 4, or start from the bottom up, after this post will come more cute jungle baby stuff.

While still in Capetown, me, the director and the AD had the privilege to be invited by one of the actresses in our film, Cornelia George, to take a tour of her home and neighborhood- a typical South African township. I was very grateful because I had seen townships only from the freeways, and felt I was shut out from an important part of South African reality.

I love taking home tours and to get to see how people live, and here was the extreme OTHER end of the spectrum of such a thing as a Palm Springs ModCom home tour. I have seen settlements like this in Mexico and Cuba, and I felt very impartial about doing this, and the people were open and curious about our interest. I am very inspired by visual extremes (this is what got me into Tiki), and some of the upcoming images could be likened to the Mondo Cane/Africa Addio genre (though I am not a particular fan of that genre). I do not aim to offend, just to document.

Now while the affluent Capetowners dine at places such as Sushi Bar TANK, (which could very well be in LA), others have to find nourishment under different conditions:

Here a local delicacy, sheep heads.

Goin shopping:

They are prepared by burning,

singeing and boiling them.

Like an ironic cliche, Coca Cola billboards are everywhere

Cornelia was a very engaged tour guide

In a further "Life imitates art" experience, these shacks look exactly like the film sets in I AM CUBA. But they are real, real complete families live in them. The materials of construction vary...

This is the interior of a home-made beer brewery.

No, I did not get to try any.

If you have a business you may live under your spare parts:

This is the community arts center, where dance and art classes are available.
These photographs might help to put ones own economic woes into perspective.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-12-02 03:08 ]