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Message from Mukalap

Message from Mukalap

2021 · 14 min

This film is a response to a unique sound recording that captures a spoken message from a man named Mukalap, recorded around 1936 in South Africa. Mukalap speaks in the now-extinct Khoe language !Ora. He calls on an European audience to listen to his beautiful language just for once, and to him.

Directed by Judith Westerveld

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