Synopsis
Shot radically close to the community "Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed '' depicts a scene of a super-fast music genre that attracts all ages and all genders. Singeli music was born at the turn of the century in the Mburahati slum of Dar es Salaam, when, after 40 years of building a socialist economy, Tanzania began implementing capitalist reforms. Singeli's creators come from the first generation that lives in this new reality. This film looks at how ambition and dreams of stardom bloom in artists who grew up in the clash between the altruism of past socialist times and the competitiveness of capitalist acceleration.
Poland, Tanzania, 61 min color, HD, stereo
Director's biography
Jan Moss is a film director, DJ, activist, curator, promotor, and an intermedia artist who mainly uses film, sculpture and sound. He is interested in the origin of dreams and ambitions, sustainable development, the cycles of self-regulation of nature, or the role of the sublime in conditioning social needs, e.g. the commodification of the experience of fear in nineteenth-century horror literature, i.e. the relation between the fog and the smog. He studied fne arts at the academies in Krakow, Oslo, and Malmö. Since 2018 he’s been closely collaborating with the Ugandan record label Nyege Nyege Tapes, creating music videos and a series of documentary flms Nyege Nyege Tapes Tapes.
He worked as a content consultant or creator in projects for documenta13 in Athens and Kassel, ilm Study Center at Harvard University, Mies van Der Rohe Pavillion in Barcelona, Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, the Lithuanian Pavillion for 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Selected solo exhibitions include: Project Room, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2019), Handbook for city dwellers, Krakow (2017), Noplace, Oslo (2017), Hotel Pro Forma, Copenhagen (2016) and group exhibitions: Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince (2018), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2016), Futura, Prague (2015), National Gallery, Ulan Bator (2014).
Date
April 18th, 12–13 p.m. [ SCREENING ]
Location
Room 207 [ CORTEX ]
Direct Media [ Sound ]
Menzelstraße 13–15
34121 Kassel
Website
ftp-direct.media
Film Review by Lutivini Majanja