3SAI: a Rite of Passage - trailer

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Channel: International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR · 2013 · Film & Animation

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The film documents the ritual of shaving the heads of South African army recruits, contrasted with evocative landscapes and time-lapses.

The film documents the ritual of shaving the heads of recruits to the Third South African Infantry Battalion, in Kimberley, South Africa, contrasted with evocative landscapes and time-lapses. These images of transition in masculine identity consider what is gained and what is lost.

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