JOBURG PARTY - A Snap Shot of South Africa's new youth underground.

Over two days and nights in Johannesburg, South Africa, we travelled to illegal rooftop parties, warehouse raves, street fashion shoots and poolside jams to meet some of the young musicians, DJs, zine publishers and artists set on taking the SA scene global, and asked them how the city's youth culture is changing. 

Features great music and interviews with Dirty Paraffin, Richard the Third, Desmond & The Tutus, Jamal Nxedlana (CUSS) and more. Joburg? It's like a movie.

Film by Rod Stanley & Chris Saunders.

Edited by Rob Hannah

Corner to Corner feat. Spoek Mathambo, Dirty Paraffin & Bhubesi

Red Bull has got behind some of SA's best musicians and threw a weekday gig where things got messy when Spoek Mathambo, Dirty Paraffin and Bhubessi hit the streets of Soweto and made the party. I shot it because it was fun. 

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Bhubessi

Spoek Mathambo

Okmalumkoolkat from Dirty Paraffin.

Bhubessi

Okmalumkoolkat and in the background BFG.

Okmalumkoolkat x LV - Sebenza Music Video

So for the past two months I have been working super hard on Directing my first music video. I had the pleasure of hooking up with Gervase Gordon from LV in december and have been chatting to Okmalumkoolkat from Dirty Paraffin about doing a project for ages. We decided to splice things up, I wanted to produce a video which was a culmination of my South African sub-culture photographic documentaries and get them to move in a scripted music video format.

We featured some very contentious cultures which are hitting the scene in South Africa, The Isikhothane's (recently featured on ETV in a very negative light), who battle for fashion, Spinning, where people meet up with hotted up cars on weekends and perform mad tricks to entertain crowds of people in public spaces and the new Primal Stof music scene lead by Dirty Paraffin. This video was for one half of Dirty Paraffin, Okmalumkoolkat and this is his second single to go out with LV following in the footsteps of the successful 'Boomslang' in 2010.

With tons of support from Miles Goodall who was the cinematographer on the video and his many contacts, including Media Films services who supplied us with the amazing Ari Alexa to shoot the video on and The Refinery who finished and colored the project (Thanks Terry Simpson, your amazing).

Many Thanks to Malcolm Che at Voltaire for making the cut as poignant and to the track as he did. Without him this video would never have been a success! 

I got to work and work with some amazing guys from Orange Farm and Everton townships South of Johannesburg including Sello Modiga who was our fixer and unit producer and a whole bunch of amazing performers who he helped connect me with.

Credits:
Directed by. Chris Saunders
Produced by. Olga Grigorova & Chris Saunders
Director of photography. Miles Goodall 
Edited by. Malcolm Che' (Voltaire)
Colorist. Terry Simpson (The Refinery)
Executive Producer. Linda Notelovitz 
Unit Producer. Sello Modiga 
Wardrobe and art direction: Jamal Nxedlana
1st Camera Assistant. Lee Goodall 
Grip. Tyler Geldenhuys
DIT. Frances VJ 
Stills Photography. Michael Magagane & Frances VJ
Camera & Grips Equipment sponsored and supplied by. Media Film Service (Johannesburg)

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