{"id":366682,"date":"2011-04-04T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/movie-uncovers-south-africas-underground-youth-culture\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:27:53","slug":"movie-uncovers-south-africas-underground-youth-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/movie-uncovers-south-africas-underground-youth-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie uncovers South Africa&#8217;s underground youth culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"85.781972265023\">  <!-- start feedback link --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/feedback link --><br \/>\n       <!-- Tracking values --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div readability=\"4.1428571428571\">\n<div readability=\"4.8333333333333\">\n<p>Part of complete coverage on<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!--startclickprintinclude-->   <!--endclickprintinclude--> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>By  <b>Matthew Knight<\/b> for CNN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"83.753488372093\"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- CONTENT -->  <!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div readability=\"6\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>Stocktown X: South Africa (trailer)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li>New documentary showcases the sights and sounds of South Africa&#8217;s youth scene<\/li>\n<li>Stocktown X: South Africa interviews Cape Town and Johannesburg&#8217;s young creatives <\/li>\n<li>Filmmakers want to reveal the thriving urban culture away from media stereotypes <\/li>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--> <!--startclickprintinclude--> <\/p>\n<p><b>(CNN)<\/b> &#8212; Arcade game-inspired fashionistas mixing with heavy metal bands grinding out tunes on street corners sounds like a scene you might find in New York&#8217;s trendier locales.<\/p>\n<p>But this is South Africa &#8212; a country with a young population and a thriving underground youth culture.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Swedish filmmakers Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft traveled to Cape Town and Johannesburg in search of a different scene, one which steered clear of the &#8220;media stereotypes of violence, AIDS and safaris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result is <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/stocktown\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Stocktown X: South Africa,&#8221;<\/a> an uplifting and colorful 30-minute documentary which gives a snapshot of the exciting youth scene in some of Cape Town and Johannesburg&#8217;s poorest districts.<\/p>\n<p>Here, you&#8217;ll find artists and designers, musicians and photographers, all making their mark on the community and beyond, fashioning an identity for themselves through the things they create, says Goitom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope this film is an eye-opener to the stuff happening here, despite media reports of what is going on,&#8221; Goitom said.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7.5\">\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<p>The youth of South Africa &#8212; irrespective of their backgrounds and cultural differences &#8212; are starting to take awareness in what&#8217;s happening in the world.<br \/><span>&#8211;Kemi Mngomezulu, Smarteez fashion collective<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p>He and Taft meet heavy-metal band Ree-Burth who play sessions to small, but highly appreciative crowds from a backyard in Pimville, Soweto, and Gazelle, an electro-pop band from Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Next, they drop in on the creators of fashion brand 2Bop, which designs street-wear inspired by 1980s arcade games such as Nintendo&#8217;s &#8220;Street Fighter,&#8221; before catching up with Kepi Mngomezulu, founder of the Soweto-based &#8220;Smarteez&#8221; fashion collective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our styles vary from person to person depending on how we absorb what inspires us. So we have different fashion icons, but the style definitely has a common thread giving an overall Smarteez aesthetic,&#8221; Mngomezulu said.<\/p>\n<p>He says the street culture vibe is &#8220;very unpredictable and evolving rapidly&#8221; because people are realizing how self-expression can be used &#8220;as a weapon to shoot your voice for the world to hear.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Smarteez, and other street culture movements, are giving voice to a new generation, Mngomezulu said.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Day by day the youth of South Africa &#8212; irrespective of their backgrounds and cultural differences &#8212; are starting to take awareness in what&#8217;s happening in the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are starting to take a stand by voicing their opinions literally, or by other means of expression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goitom agrees, saying that the people he met while filming were incredibly well-informed about the wider social and political world. <\/p>\n<p>Stocktown X: South Africa is the latest in a series of documentaries in which Goitom and Taft have explored underground urban music scenes in Japan, Australia and Brazil and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He hopes this latest film, which last week premiered at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemafrica.se\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CinemAfrica film festival<\/a> in Sweden will, in some small way, encourage young people outside Africa to look in on the continent&#8217;s growing pool of creative talent.<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintinclude--><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strycntnt --><!-- \/cnn_strycntntrgt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_africa\/~3\/3Ah8X8UQpf4\/index.html\" title=\"Movie uncovers South Africa's underground youth culture\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Movie uncovers South Africa&#8217;s underground youth culture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Part of complete coverage on By Matthew Knight for CNN Stocktown X: South Africa (trailer) STORY HIGHLIGHTS New documentary showcases the sights and sounds of South Africa&#8217;s youth scene Stocktown X: South Africa interviews Cape Town and Johannesburg&#8217;s young creatives Filmmakers want to reveal the thriving urban culture away from media stereotypes (CNN) &#8212; Arcade game-inspired fashionistas mixing with heavy metal bands grinding out tunes on street corners sounds like a scene you might find in New York&#8217;s trendier locales. But this is South Africa &#8212; a country with a young population and a thriving underground youth culture. Last year, Swedish filmmakers Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft traveled to Cape Town and Johannesburg in search of a different scene, one which steered clear of the &#8220;media stereotypes of violence, AIDS and safaris.&#8221; The result is &#8220;Stocktown X: South Africa,&#8221; an uplifting and colorful 30-minute documentary which gives a snapshot of the exciting youth scene in some of Cape Town and Johannesburg&#8217;s poorest districts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Movie uncovers South Africa&#039;s underground youth culture - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/movie-uncovers-south-africas-underground-youth-culture\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Movie uncovers South Africa&#039;s underground youth culture - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Part of complete coverage on By Matthew Knight for CNN Stocktown X: South Africa (trailer) STORY HIGHLIGHTS New documentary showcases the sights and sounds of South Africa&#039;s youth scene Stocktown X: South Africa interviews Cape Town and Johannesburg&#039;s young creatives Filmmakers want to reveal the thriving urban culture away from media stereotypes (CNN) -- Arcade game-inspired fashionistas mixing with heavy metal bands grinding out tunes on street corners sounds like a scene you might find in New York&#039;s trendier locales. 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