Atelier Zerodeux
Close Encounters 1999 candidates Portia Rankoane and Pule Diphare were invited to Switzerland to take part in Atelier Zerodeux. Convened by Werner Schweizer, an Encounters guest in 2001, Atelier Zerodeux was to produce 50 films celebrating the 2002 Expo in Switzerland. Rankoane and Diphare spent 10 weeks in Switzerland, funded by Pro Helvetia Liaison Office Cape Town.
A lyrical evocation of lakes as living beings emerging into self-consciousness, and a reflection on the existential dilemma of bounded water treated as a passive recipient of human projections of pleasure. In the end, moving images, mounted over and mirrored by the water’s surface, offer a synthesis of the submerged forces of creation and their outward expression.