Excuse me, while I disappear. - trailer for short film by Michael MacGarry
Excuse me, while I disappear. - written, directed, filmed and edited by Michael MacGarry The film was shot in Kilamba Kiaxi, a new city built outside Luanda, Angola. The city was built by Chinese construction company CITIC and financed by Hong Kong-based China International Fund. The new city is to be home to more than 210 000 people, and is the single largest investment project by China in Africa. The film’s narrative follows a young municipal worker who lives by night in the old city center of Luanda and works by day as a groundskeeper at the new city of Kilamba Kiaxi far away. Exhibition Precedence: - VideoBrasil, 19th Festival of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, Brasil - After Africa; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Humlebaek, Denmark - Official Selection: Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema (FCAAAL), Milan, Italy - Africa Salon; Yale University, Connecticut; 2015 - The Film Will Always Be You; TATE Modern; London; 2015 - The Johannesburg Pavilion; 56th la Biennale di Venezia; Campo San Giacomo dall’Orio, Venice, Italy - Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design, curated by Okwui Enwezor and Amelie Klein; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; 2015. Exhibition tours: Guggenheim Bilbao (2016) - Official Selection: 20th Afrika Film Festival de Belgique (AFF), Leuven, Belgium - Nominated: Huysmans Young Africa Filmmaker Award 2015 - Official Selection: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015
