The Satyr of Springbok Heights

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Synopsis:

The Satyr of Springbok Heights is a surreal and hilarious cult mockumentary about poor whites living on the fringes of the new South Africa, and the exquisite old apartment building that holds them as its captive.

 

Directed by Robert Silke

Written by Nicholas Spagnoletti

Produced by Aaron Scheiner

2009, Country: South Africa

http://www.springbokheights.co.za

Capetonian Robert Silke is Design Director at Louis Karol, South Africa’s largest firm of architects.

Silke’s award-winning built work (as well as his caustic social commentary) is published in blue-chip design journals Wallpaper*, ARCHIS and OneSmallSeed.

Silke’s first cinema foray, Die Pienk Gevaar, headlined at South Africa’s national Out in Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in 2002 – and was accorded must-see status at New York’s Mix NYC experimental film festival in the same year.

The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Silke’s first full-length feature and embodies his life-long preoccupation with architecture, urbanism and its profoundly-underestimated effect on the lives of ordinary people.