By Christopher Vourlias
Meet the Artist: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese — Sundance Film Festival 2020
Sundance Prize winner Lemohang Mosese is in post-production on his fourth feature film, “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” which he will present at Venice Production Bridge’s Final Cut pics-in-post workshop for films from Africa and the Arab world.
The film is described as "a deeply personal exploration of identity, childhood, death and exile through the eyes of a puppeteer, a mother, a boy, a farmer and a town." It is presented as an "allegorical essay" and centers on a puppeteer in a market in an anonymous African town who wants the locals to return to their ancestral ways.
An herbalist, preacher and former prophet, the puppeteer “preaches to [the villagers] about beauty, about what people can become,” Mosese tells Variety. “He wants to extend their lives, because he believes human life is so beautiful, but so short — they live so briefly to correct the mistakes of their predecessors.
