{"id":42296,"date":"2018-07-03T15:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T13:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/new-video-okzharp-and-manthe-ribane-closer-apart\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:19","slug":"new-video-okzharp-and-manthe-ribane-closerapart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/new-video-okzharp-and-manthe-ribane-closerapart\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video: OKZharp and Manthe Ribane &#8211; Closer\/Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Ub-x44Q6CM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Date: June 28th, 2018<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Director: Chris Saunders<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Performer: Manthe Ribane<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Writer: Okzharp<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Choreography, Styling: Manthe Ribane<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>The film &#8216;Closer\/Apart&#8217; is a collaboration between photographer and film-maker Chris Saunders, producer and writer Okzharp and performer and artist Manthe Ribane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Closer \/ Apart&#8217; is visual exploration of the album &#8216;Closer Apart&#8217; by Okzharp and Manthe Ribane, directed by Chris Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>The film draws on Chris Saunders&#8217; photography and film work, capturing contemporary movement and dance, but applies this to an abstracted interrogation of a person&#8217;s place within different natures &#8211; real and fictionalised, performative and psychosomatic. Animated textures and digital landscapes from Optigram are overlaid, challenging the integrity of Manthe&#8217;s cinematic world, rupturing the viewer&#8217;s engagement with it, evoking an internet-like unrest, bringing with it a sense of the imminent beyond the present continuous.<\/p>\n<p>The film was shot at Nirox Sculpture Park, The Cradle of Humankind, Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Manthe and Okzharp&#8217;s debut album is released on 6th July via Hyperdub.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next\u00a0:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pantsula\/\">Pantsula: 5 faces shaping the South African scene today<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15616\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp-1010x568.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OKZharp-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: June 28th, 2018 Director: Chris Saunders Performer: Manthe Ribane Writer: Okzharp Choreography, Styling: Manthe Ribane The film &#8216;Closer\/Apart&#8217; is a collaboration between photographer and film-maker Chris Saunders, producer and writer Okzharp and performer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5461,6172],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42296"}],"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=42296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42296"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42296"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}