The director of The Zim talks racial dynamics in Zimbabwe and adapting his short to a feature.
Opening against the backdrop of Zimbabwe’s fraught post-colonial existence, Alexander Bedria’s The Zim sets about examining a supremely racially-challenging landscape. As a white son of ancestral colonists, living and working alongside a black native, Bedria walks a line of humble reverence as he attempts to diagnose the fierce divisions underpinning his story. There’s an awful lot of historical and political context to unpack, and Bedria is ultimately done a disservice by a format that requires narrative and emotional shorthand in the name of expediency; if anything, The Zim would benefit from a feature-length runtime.
But it’s not difficult to see how it managed to take home the top prize at the La Shorts International Film Festival, where it recently premiered.
Opening against the backdrop of Zimbabwe’s fraught post-colonial existence, Alexander Bedria’s The Zim sets about examining a supremely racially-challenging landscape. As a white son of ancestral colonists, living and working alongside a black native, Bedria walks a line of humble reverence as he attempts to diagnose the fierce divisions underpinning his story. There’s an awful lot of historical and political context to unpack, and Bedria is ultimately done a disservice by a format that requires narrative and emotional shorthand in the name of expediency; if anything, The Zim would benefit from a feature-length runtime.
But it’s not difficult to see how it managed to take home the top prize at the La Shorts International Film Festival, where it recently premiered.
- 11/25/2017
- by Joshua Glenn
- Pure Movies
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