The two partners on previous doc work were among the team that criss-crossed the nation, interviewing people traveling on trains—or just observing them in their unnatural habitat.
This crowded debut feature feels like a tense South African version of Slacker, with Mer’s camera tracking a variety of young people through the affluent Johannesburg suburbs.
The film, which premiered Thursday at Tribeca, follows Martin McCann as a paranoid loner eking out a solitary living in the woods after Armageddon.
The film had its North American premiére Thursday at the Tribeca Film Festival. This is the first in a series of short-take interviews from the fest.