Two children are building a wall out of stones. They are blocking our view of a screen with it. The children are building the wall together in an effort to protect themselves from old beliefs. Once the whole image of the screen is gone, an adult suddenly appears and walks straight through the wall to the other side towards the screen. The new world which the children are constructing seems to have a fragile partition between the old cultural values and standards which are passed on from generation to generation in every culture on the one side, and the future on the other. A plea is being made for abandoning old models and searching for new interpretations of our cultural beliefs. Abandon your culture, your parents, your future, your ideology, your identity, your history... Abandon everything, resounds the litany. And the answer is: I have no culture, no parents, no future, no ideology, no identity, no history... There is only a future free from the old beliefs, free from set cultural references. An empty book must yet fill its pages. The children's 'tabula rasa' should be filled with other notions than old and obsolete cultural attitudes. At the end the children themselves tear down the wall and walk off the screen. However, the wall remains the border, they do not cross it. The frame freezes. There is a history behind them, a future in front of them.
– Carla Hoekendijk
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Camera, Light: Peter Tischhauser, Sound: Warrick Sony, With: Ryk Joubert, Leon Davies, Production: Malcolm Payne, Carsten Rasch
Malcolm Payne ° 1946, Pretoria (South Africa)
Lives and works in Kaapstad (South Africa)
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