‘From the throbbing of virile cities’ to ‘relics of a bygone and leisurely age’ – with such phrases, Remnants of a Stone Age People invited audiences of the 1960s to journey from Johannesburg to the Kalahari to view the producers’ ultimate Other: the Bushmen. More curious and bizarre than the hunter-gatherers’ images are the ideological gems in the script. Did you know that the Bushmen fled to the desert because they refused to cooperate?

A fascinating and eerie study of the logic of racial superiority, and the craft of ‘Othering’ subjects via moving images. This film is screened courtesy of the Government Communication Information Services and is part of a triple bill with River of Memory and The Great Dance.