Jaco Bouwer

This Country is Lonely (2019)

RATGIRL is the digital avatar of artist Jazzard Jaslyn, who crafts endurance performance pieces staged through Instagram stories which re-enact indignities still faced by marginalised people in post-apartheid South Africa. But this country is lonely is most ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
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RATGIRL is the digital avatar of artist Jazzard Jaslyn, who crafts endurance performance pieces staged through Instagram stories which re-enact indignities still faced by marginalised people in post-apartheid South Africa. But this country is lonely is most ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
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I Love You Jet Li (2005)

Taking us into what for Mark Augé is the ultimate non-place - an airport waiting lounge - Stacy Hardy and Jaco Bouwer provide still more proof of supermodernity's failure to do away with organic social life. Granted, the space we enter with them is not one of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer  •  Stacy Hardy
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Taking us into what for Mark Augé is the ultimate non-place - an airport waiting lounge - Stacy Hardy and Jaco Bouwer provide still more proof of supermodernity's failure to do away with organic social life. Granted, the space we enter with them is not one of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer  •  Stacy Hardy
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Rage (2020)

What is supposed to be the best holiday of their lives turns to horror as a group of teenagers is picked off one by one in a small coastal village.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
CAST:  Jane de Wet  •  Carel Nel  •  Nicole Fortuin  •  Tristan de Beer

What is supposed to be the best holiday of their lives turns to horror as a group of teenagers is picked off one by one in a small coastal village.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
CAST:  Jane de Wet  •  Carel Nel  •  Nicole Fortuin  •  Tristan de Beer

Somerkersfees (2019)

A gripping South African Christmas movie about a dysfunctional family and their beach holiday that forces them to come to terms with their flaws, differences, hate and love for each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
CAST:  Milan Murray  •  Edwin van der Walt  •  Marguerite van Eeden  •  Neels Coetzee

A gripping South African Christmas movie about a dysfunctional family and their beach holiday that forces them to come to terms with their flaws, differences, hate and love for each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
CAST:  Milan Murray  •  Edwin van der Walt  •  Marguerite van Eeden  •  Neels Coetzee

Gaia (2021)

In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
CAST:  Monique Rockman  •  Carel Nel  •  Alex van Dyk  •  Anthony Oseyemi

In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
CAST:  Monique Rockman  •  Carel Nel  •  Alex van Dyk  •  Anthony Oseyemi

Rooiland (2011)

A gritty prison drama, a story about stories, memories inherited become weapons in the mouths of prisoners. Four men in a cramped cell struggle for space to sleep, sit, speak, think. When everyone screams at once, a strange truth emerges.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
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A gritty prison drama, a story about stories, memories inherited become weapons in the mouths of prisoners. Four men in a cramped cell struggle for space to sleep, sit, speak, think. When everyone screams at once, a strange truth emerges.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
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Balbesit

A play about rugby by Saartjie Botha.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
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A play about rugby by Saartjie Botha.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer
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Krismis van Map Jacobs

A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the way of life of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer  •  Jason Jacobs
CAST:  DJ Mouton  •  Ilse Klink  •  Rushney Ferguson  •  Emile Smit

A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the way of life of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaco Bouwer  •  Jason Jacobs
CAST:  DJ Mouton  •  Ilse Klink  •  Rushney Ferguson  •  Emile Smit