{"id":103202,"date":"2022-04-01T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=103202"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:11:43","slug":"dumama-kechou-mother-time-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dumama-kechou-mother-time-film\/","title":{"rendered":"dumama + kechou explore \u201cmother time\u201d in short film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pulling a single off their previous album buffering juju, released in 2020, dumama + kechou revisit \u201cmother time\u201d with the help of director Ayanda Duma for a mystical tour in the Namibian desert.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Cape Town based duo dumama (Gugulethu Duma) and kechou (Kerim Melik Becker) reawaken the power of their critically acclaimed debut album buffering juju <\/em>(a concept album mixing jazz, xhosa folk music, hip hop and more) with a film directed by South African filmmaker Ayanda Duma. The duo chose the track \u201cmother time\u201d to express visually, tapping into the \u201cthe transience of beauty, loss and mourning, displacement, the importance of memory, hopes for the future and the nature of the creative act itself<\/em>\u201d all nestled in the bosom of time. The 5 minute film follows the duo through the various landscapes of the Namibian desert feeling experimental and imaginative, full of symbols and beautiful contrasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Behind the camera Ayanda Duma projects her \u201csubversive and imaginative lens which observes the ways in which the past informs the present<\/em>\u201d. A fitting perspective as Mushroom Hour, the South African label that released the project, describes buffering juju <\/em>as \u201ca conduit to a past we were not necessarily present for, and a future where threatened indigenous technologies thrive in an increasingly digitized world.<\/em>\u201d  Focusing her attention on representation of the marginalized people of South Africa, particularly black women, Ayanda Duma who also premiered a short film at the Cannes Film Festival\u2019s Horizon Award, provides a delicate gaze into the hypnotic and engaged world of dumama + kechou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall the film is a splendid meditation on the inescapable nature of time, in a world not quite like our own, that helps us imagine and reflect on the vast seas of sand and the slowly falling grains that pass through the hourglass present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to \u201cmother time\u201d in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pulling a single off their previous album buffering juju, released in 2020, dumama + kechou revisit \u201cmother time\u201d with the help of director Ayanda Duma for a mystical tour in the Namibian desert. Cape Town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":103203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7833],"tags":[23471,5223,23842,5729],"location":[7844],"yst_prominent_words":[8539,13783,8447,9415,8435,9834,9551,8611,30463],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103202"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=103202"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=103202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}