The director of the Durban-shot film, My Black Little Heart, Claire Angelique, starts shooting her new feature film in early March.
Palace of Bone is, according to Angelique, set in a post apocalyptic Durban. “It’s the piecing together of “found’ video footage off cell phones, digital video and still cameras, film slides, 16 mm stuff from the 1960s and VHS home movies. The film has a YouTube kind of feel to it, as if someone has pieced everything together and found a strange tale about certain miscreants and forgotten personalities that live near the Albert Park area of downtown Durban.’
The 30-year old filmmaker recently won the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year award for My Black Little Heart. Palace of Bone is to debut at this year’s National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Angelique will be using the actors themselves to shoot the footage to add authenticity to the story and will be editing the film herself. “Music will be a mish mash of local artists as well as original compositions by Jonathon Hischke, a Los Angeles musician who plays with the Mars Volta, Hella and is currently in a band with the new Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.’
As the budget is just over R100,000 short, Angelique is looking for private investors. “Because it is a low budget film, the returns for small amounts of private investment from R5,000 upwards means that the returns are high and I’m not against the donor appearing in a cameo role in the film,’ she says.
