Within the first of three movies within the Isuzu Ikhaya Lekhaya collection, musical director Charl-Johan Lingenfelder drives the most recent Isuzu D-Max from Cape City to Villiersdorp.
If you happen to spent any time on the Web throughout 2020, you might need stumbled into musical director Charl-Johan Lingenfelder’s Cape City house. You wouldn’t have seen him, nonetheless: as a substitute, you’ll have watched an individual created from Prestik navigate the strangeness of lockdown, in Charl’s haunting stop-motion animated movie I’m Not Right here.
Nevertheless it’s 2022 now and Charl is right here – and, so are we: two film-makers and one author. We’re feasting on home made soup, consuming within the magnificent view throughout Cape City from Charl’s house, and chatting concerning the which means of “house” (which, it seems, is something however easy). It’s the beginning of a four-day journey that would be the making of this video <insert hyperlink>, and it’ll take us from Charl’s house (“It’s completely a mirrored image of who I’m,” he tells us) to Villiersdorp within the Overberg, the place Charl was raised.
The journey has been prompted by the evolution of Hommelby Genesis, an album written by Charl that centres on the story of an Afrikaans boy rising up in a small city throughout apartheid, and it explores the hopes and aspirations of younger individuals as they step out into the grownup world. It’s doubtless that one of many songs shall be carried out by a choir from De Villiers Graaff Excessive Faculty, Charl’s alma mater, and he’s desirous to take heed to the voices of the pupils.
The bodily journey is fantastically comfy – we journey in a brand new Isuzu D-Max, which powers effortlessly over the placing Du Toitskloof Move and glides by means of the valleys of the Overberg area. Our inside journeys, nonetheless, take us past our consolation zones as we journey alongside Charl and discover a number of the locations that formed the daring, a number of award-winning musical director he’s at the moment.
“I’ve been pondering loads about journeys and locations,” Charl muses because the D-Max clings to the curves of the Du Toitskloof Move. “Each are equally essential, as a result of your journey goes to have an effect on the way you expertise your vacation spot. Going again to Villiersdorp now, after my life’s journey, I’m wondering how the way in which I see and expertise the city can have modified.”
Spoiler alert: experiences and perceptions do change – however not, maybe, in the way in which you count on whenever you set out. Why? As a result of going house… it’s sophisticated.
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