a message from peter whitehead about sms sugar man
Dear Aryan,
My only regret was not having time to speak to you about your film. I would love to have a DVD of it to watch it more closely. Lots of amazing fascinating stuff – and parallels to so much of my thinking. You are truly a poet of the cinema. And a dark one at that – always the best!
Talk soon …
best
sms sugar man has its south african premiere during the national arts festival in grahamstown on 4 july at 22:00. read it all about it and book your tickets here
July 25th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
hey, where did she get such such cool stills? : – )
nice review, i enjoy her appreciation of the cellphone camera as a medium with particular strengths. but is the film in need of some ruthless editing?
July 27th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I wouldn’t say “ruthless editing” is needed. i personally thought there was hardly a superflous scene or word spoken.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
[...] kagablog: sms sugar man reviewed by mary corrigall July 29th, 2008 by Aryan Shooting a film with cellphones is obviously going to result in a unique cinematic experience but it is not just the unconventional medium that makes SMS Sugar man novel. Director and writer Aryan Kaganof has produced a film with a visual and ideological character that is not readily associated with South African film-making. It doesn;t deal with any of the clichéd South African themes and it has an extraordinary visual texture that sets just the right level of sombreness required to relay a twisted contemporary fairytale. [...]