Khalo Matabane

Né le 18 Juin 1974 à Ga Mphahlele, un village du Limpopo (Afrique du Sud).

Khalo MATABANE a réalisé plusieurs films documentaires. CONVERSATIONS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON est le premier volet d’une trilogie de films basés sur l’improvisation et tournés en vidéo numérique (HDcam), sur la mondialisation. A côté de son travail de cinéaste, Khalo écrit aussi occasionnellement sur le cinéma et la politique.

Films / Films

1996
Poetic Conversations (shortfilm/ CM),
Two Decades Still (documentary/ documentaire).

1997
The Waiters (documentary/ documentaire).

1999
Young Lions (documentary).

2001
Love in a Time of Sickness (shortfilm/CM).

2004
Story of a Beautiful Country (documentary/ documentaire).

2005
CONVERSATIONS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, long métrage, docufiction.

2010
STATE OF VIOLENCE, long métrage, fiction

Khalo Matabane was born in 1974 in Limpopo village, South Africa. He has made many documentary films. Conversations on a Sunday Afternoonis the first chapte of a trilogy based on improvisation, shot in digital video. Apart from dedicating his time as a director, he occasionally writes about cinema and politics.

Khalo Matabane has directed more than ten documentaries, a number of short films, and recently made his first feature. Matabane won the Lionel Ngakane Award for the most promising South African filmmaker. Khalo Matabane has directed a number of films about South African issues, including the shorts Poetic Conversations (1996) and Love in a Time of Sickness (2001), as well as the documentaries Two Decades Still (1996), The Waiters (1997), Young Lions (1999) and Story of a Beautiful Country (2004). He was also awarded the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for his film Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon (2005), which also won the Best South African Feature Film at DIFF 2006. The remarkable State of Violence (2010) is his second feature film.

1996 – Poetic Conversations (cm)
1996 – Two Decades Still (doc)
1997 – The Waiters (doc)
1999 – Young Lions (doc)
2001 – Love in a Time of Sickness (cm)
2004 – Story of a Beautiful Country (doc)
2005 – Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
2010 – State of Violence