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“Pandza Land”, documentary by Heike Roch
9:56 CAT | 31 May 2019
“Pandza Land”, documentary by Heike Roch
Date and Time: Monday, June 10 2019 at 19h00
Entrance: Free (cultural club members) and 150 MZN (non-members)
Address: Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
About the documentary
PANDZA is a Mozambican expression.
"Das dificuldades, fazer oportunidades - Turning challenges into opportunities“
In the local languages Xichangana and Xironga, the word PANDZA means to beat, to break or to rip something apart. Colloquially PANDZA expresses confusion or mixture, in both a positive and negative light. But PANDZA is also a style of music and a dance.
PANDZA Land focuses on the reality and relation between Mozambican attitude and the popular electronic style of music, which is inspired by the situation. The everyday expression came to be what it is through the music. It means to mix and involve one’s self. PANDZA is mixing global and traditional rhythms in English, Portuguese and regional languages. The lyrics play with events everyday life.
PANDZA Land, realized by a local team, subtly conveys the emotion of a place through its music. Concept and filming were kindly supported by the musicians of REPÚBLICA DO PANDZA and the young dancers OS BONECOS, who openly gave access to their way of live. This joint initiative was experimental as much as it was fun, capturing a moment in time in a country that is thriving on the cheerful optimism of its people.
Duration: 80 minutes approximately
About Heike Roch
Heike Kirsten Roch studied fashion design in Berlin and São Paulo. Through the end of 80's she lived in Rome, till 2012 in Hamburg and Berlin. She worked for creative agencies and editors, designing trend- and forecast products. She studied journalism out of personal interest in a further form of expressionism and travelled through Brazil and Belize. Since 2013 Heike Roch has been working in the culture area in Maputo, Mozambique as a journalist and author.
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