443:. From the age of 9 years old, Mthetho sang along with his other friends Athenkosi Jaza, Thulani Myeki, Mzwamadoda Nkanunu and Elvis Seekoei. Later, he then fell into a pattern of crime, enduring multiple stabbings and a burning in gang wars and chance incidents. With a knife scar stretching the length of his cheek, Mthetho is now pulling himself out of gang life, using opera to uplift his mind and support his family. A Dutch pianist Derk Blaisse found Mthetho and his friends on the street and helped Mthetho apply for training opportunities. Derk Blaisse, Mthetho Mapoyi and Athenkosi performed together at markets and Blaisse's restaurant The Crypt. Mthetho was featured on the BBC 7 January 2013 (the BBC spelled his name 'Mthetho Maphoyi') and gave a TedxTeen talk in early 2012 (TedxTeen spelled his name 'Mteto Maphoyi').
412:, Ongx was awarded first place in a national music competition in 2007, winning a record deal with Africa's largest music production company. When the deal did not turn out as promised, Ongx must play music on the streets, wash dishes and connect illegal electricity in the townships in order to make ends meet. Fighting tooth and nail to sustain himself through his passion, Ongx puts a human face on a devastating social reality in a country with roughly 40% unemployed citizens. Ongx and his best friend Wara form the band Warongx, singing in their traditional language of
483:, Blaq Pearl's life is imbued with the struggle between a violent environment and a peaceful core. As a spoken word artist and performer, Blaq Pearl worked in a prison teaching creative writing to inmates where her brother taught before his untimely death. The same prison released her brother's murderer just months after his incarceration. The killer now lives in the neighborhood next to Blaq Pearl's family home. In the ten years prior to 2007, four times as many people were murdered in South Africa than Americans killed during the entire
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467:, Emile united a generation of youth during the fall of apartheid in the tumultuous eighties and nineties. Emile participated in anti-apartheid protests and school boycotts during his youth, getting shot at by police and witnessing the death of friends fighting to overthrow South Africa's oppressive government. Emile now practices more subversive activism in his community, creating a conscious culture through breakdancing workshops, events and b-boy competitions.
359:. Weaving through the lives of Faith47, Warongx (afro-blues), Emile Jansen (hip hop), Sweat.X (glam rap), Blaq Pearl (spoken word) and Mthetho (opera), the film culminates in an intertwined story. Born into separate areas of a formerly-segregated South Africa, the artists recraft history—and the impacts of
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proved true art is not restrained by politics or religion — or even life. Expression in this sphere is unrestrained. The film proves that anyone's vision must be developed into its full artistic potential. If there is a message to be told by modern South Africa, it's that art will save your
363:—in their own artistic languages. The lens reveals the impulse behind the artists’ social consciousness, the individuals’ eccentricities, and each creator's unique form of expression. Diving into the current of subversive art which fuels South Africa's many clashing and merging cultures,
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