Roger Horn

Roger Horn Trailers

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Roger Horn is an unconventional filmmaker and professor of Visual & Media Anthropology in Berlin. His films have screened widely at festival such as Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, and the 21st, 22nd, & 24th Ji.hlava Int’l Documentary Film Festivals.

Most Popular Roger Horn Trailers

Total trailers found: 17

Land Changes Hands, but the Bees Remain in the Hive Trailer (2022)

28 January 2022

"Land Changes Hands, but the Bees Remain in the Hive" is a short, found footage film which delves into the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) initiated by former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 2000.

Questioning the Existence of Alec Trailer (2024)

25 January 2024

Against a backdrop of the beaches of 1940s South Africa, Questioning the Existence of Alec is a voyage shared by friends from adolescence to adulthood.

Research / Souvenir (Dialogues) Trailer (2018)

30 January 2018

Research / Souvenir (Dialogues), utilizes found Super 8mm footage from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and audio from ethnographic research gathered among Zimbabwean migrant women in Cape Town, South Africa.

3 Bears Trailer (2024)

16 March 2024

3 bears, a Chuck Norris sign, and a man walking a horse in the Romanian countryside. 3 Bears was filmed on Super 8mm in Romania and Czech Republic and features watercolor pictures created by my son in Berlin from three to five-years-old.

I don't know if I'm coming or going Trailer (2020)

30 January 2020

A random assemblage of broken pieces of found 8mm footage combined with filmmaker Roger Horn’s research and personal audio spanning 15 years, "I don’t know if I’m coming or going" seeks to elicit an emotional response from the material that takes viewers from game parks in Southern Africa to unknown European destinations.

These Objects, Those Memories Trailer (2016)

23 April 2016

This is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape Town, South Africa.

African Film School Trailer (2017)

30 January 2017

Found Super 8mm home movies of wildlife from 1960s apartheid era South Africa and colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) comprise the visual elements of African Film School.

International Voice Memo (Night) Trailer (2019)

11 December 2019

Short film by Roger Horn.

Our Great Day 1967 Trailer (2018)

30 January 2018

Comprised of found footage from apartheid era South Africa, Our Great Day 1967, imagines what a day would look like if black and coloured South Africans had the same rights and privileges afforded to white citizens of the time.

The Sisterhood: Visits With My Friends Trailer (2018)

30 January 2018

Filmed by Feebee Lee Von Diamond, a transgender wine estate employee in Stellenbosch, South Africa, “The Sisterhood: Visits with my Friends”, functions as a continuation and critique of director Roger Horn’s 2010 film, ‘The Sisterhood” in which Feebee briefly appeared.

A Black Man in Zimbabwe Trailer (2018)

30 January 2018

In 1994, 62 children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe claimed to have seen a UFO and "black man" on the school playground.

In 1993 Your Father-In-Law Told Me a Joke... Trailer (2022)

31 July 2022

"In 1993 Your Father-In-Law Told Me a Joke..." recounts a joke that filmmaker Roger Horn’s father-in-law told his Ukrainian friends, a retired couple, Evgeniy and Elena that once seemed harmless and amusing, but is now all too real.

culture leap (non-linear) Trailer (2021)

09 September 2021

The primacy of culture. Culture over race. “culture leap (non-linear)” is composed of found home movies from South Africa and discarded 16mm film from the anthropology department at the University of Cape Town, salvaged by filmmaker Roger Horn while completing his PhD in Anthropology.

Migrant Dilemma Trailer (2017)

30 January 2017

With the opening assembled in the form of an explanation to the children she had to leave behind, "Migrant Dilemma" ends feeling like an apologetic self-eulogy.

Scenes from a Transient Home Trailer (2019)

01 May 2019

Filmed on Super 8mm, this is a fractured portrait of life for Zimbabwean migrants when they travel back home to visit.

HOLIDAY IN THE SEA OF SUPREMACY Trailer (2020)

28 October 2020

Rather than the much desired rest he longed for, the film director’s vacation in Spain in 2019 brought images of immigrants being pulled from the sea and protests held by Catalan separatists in Barcelona.

The Sisterhood Trailer (2010)

31 December 2010

Hazendal farmhands Pietie, Hope and Rollie are not your typical Western Cape wine workers. Hope aspires to winning the local drag beauty pageant, Rollie is the raining queen of the pageant and dreams of finding a husband, and Pietie struggles with his religious upbringing while obsessing over his roses, chickens, and pigeons.