Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You. (2019)

People in the dusty streets of Lesotho stared curiously at the young woman who was carrying a wooden cross like Jesus. She looked back at their faces and saw the mysterious and beautiful scenery, a flock of sheep, a pair of knitting hands. What she sees is rendered more accurately by black-and-white images, more abstract by slower images, and filtered out by memory. An original voiceover-realizing that it was not heard by those who were processed-structured the flow of the image into a film lament. In this short film, Mozer successfully creates a radical and sad chronicle, which expands in scope from personal farewell to mother to defection of political consciousness. From the perspective of today's life in exile in Berlin, the painful process of changing from an internal perspective of a small African country to an external perspective is visualization and criticism from a profound personal perspective. A beautiful angel accompanied this passage. This extraordinary mourning for the story of African immigrants, in a strong and painful way, reveals an area of experience that is not only in the film, but also taboo. The people on the dusty streets of L...