kagablog

it’s a very good movie. Bloody good in fact. Totally unique to have an insider’s view of the media machine at work. I’m most impressed
with the fact that you had the vision twenty years ago to shoot it the way you did. That moment unlocking the door – with the 80s glasses
and post punk hair – “strange lyrical, never before seen on film”.

The Dada jump cuts are totally in keeping. And I’ve never seen Mandela so candid and vulnerable in interview. When did you shoot that? The development with him talking about not renouncing violence and then cutting to police shooting on the parade that very day is breath taking. You’ve managed to say something interesting about the general through the particular. It’s what we’re always striving for, in fiction too.

I hope your agreement with e-tv allows you to do the festivals internationally and to sell the film foreign. Besides TV I can see it being a prescribed ‘text’ for media studies. Silverdocs will love it, and probably Seattle, Toronto, IDFA…… Big hand.

welcome nelson
2010
23min
produced and directed by craig matthew
edited by aryan kaganof
sound design by daniel eppel
theme song written by croc-e-moses and sung by alice matthew