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Touching Concrete

Touching Concrete

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 2017

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Touching Concrete

Production Companies

Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

Director

Ilja Stahl

Description

Hillbrow, a Johannesburg district bristling with buildings, on whose concrete reverberates the incessant maelstrom of street sounds. This overpopulated suburb, where life is cheap, is the playground of Tebogo and Karabo. Aged around fifteen, not very interested in school, in conflict with their mothers who are raising them alone and leave them a little to themselves, the two friends spend the summer relieving their boredom as best as they can. When they are not mixing with the groups of their elders, dancing in underground car parks or drifting through the urban hell, they seem to watch over the city by seeking refuge on the roof of their block.