Breyten Breytenbach

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Sep 16, 1939 (85 years old)

Breyten Breytenbach

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Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines
0h 58m
Movie 1998

Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines

In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten Breytenbach as he executes a series of scroll paintings for a museum in the Netherlands. Poetry readings in different tongues are fused with the poet's reflection on philosophies of religion and mind.

Intolerance
1h 34m
Movie 1996

Intolerance

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

Biography

Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region.

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