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Tracks Across Sand
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Filmmaker Name:
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Hugh Brody, Betsy Carson
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Film Length:
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270 min
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Film Year:
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2012
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Duration:
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Over 120 min
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Decade:
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2010s
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Secondary Creator:
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produced by Betsy Carson
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Africa
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In sixteen chapters containing four and a half hours of materials, Tracks Across Sand offers a unique chance to travel to the edge of the Kalahari, to a struggle for indigenous rights, and into the heart of contemporary South Africa. Driven from their lands, forced into a life of destitution, and denied the right even to speak their own languages, the ‡Khomani San fight for their heritage.
Culled from over 130 hours of video recorded between 1996 and 2010, Tracks presents a unique record of the ‡Khomani San, bringing together the story of Africa's first Bushman claim, from preparation through to ten years after the claim was granted. Seen through the eyes and told in the words of the ‡Khomani San themselves, this film chronicles the struggle for indigenous rights by a people who are defying a history that has attempted and failed to make them disappear.
The contents of this interactive DVD set include not only the extraordinary video shot over the course of the project, but archival photos, maps, family trees, stories, segments on Bushman language, and interviews with people outside of the San community who were instrumental in the claim and community building. As an added attraction, the disk also holds a photo gallery of the film's participants which can be downloaded and shared within San communities.
The ‡Khomani San of South Africa speak for themselves; and they also speak for the many, many people like them, who are struggling to have their voices heard and their human rights recognized. Tracks Across Sand is above all a record of a remarkable time and remarkable people — and may be the only record anywhere in the world of a land claim over such a span of time, from dream to retrospect ten years after settlement.
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2013
Tracks Across Sand
Contents
Overture: The origins of the land claim and the dreams of its success (30 minutes).
Before the Land Claim: Stories, history, research; the basis for making the land claim, divided into the four sections listed below.
1. Evictions
The 1930's (10 minutes), The 1970's (10 minutes), At the Roadside (4 minutes).
2. Language
Finding N/ uu (14 minutes), When the Language Took Fright (7 minutes).
3. Making Maps:
On the Land (12 minutes), Family Trees (13 minutes).
4. Tree Stories
The Tree of Love (2 minutes), A Tree Full of Children (3 minutes), Trees (1 minute).
Aftermath: Nine years after the claim: the people take us to what it has meant for them to have land, move to new villages, and experience the compilations of their new history (52 minutes).
Interviews:
Lawyer (18 minutes), South African San Institute (6 minutes), Researcher and Sociolinguist (21 minutes), Expert on N/ uu (14 minutes), Filmmaker (11 minutes).
Gallery: Photographs of the people on this DVD.
Locator Map: This map provides a geographic overview and place name guide to the ‡Khomani San traditional and present day cultural landscapes, territory and specific places that are referred to in the chapters presented in the DVD.
Credits
Directed by
Hugh Brody
Cinematography by
Jonathan Bloom
Hugh Brody
Kirk Tougas
Editing by
Haida Paul
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