![]() ![]() He works in musical environments encompassing everything from composition collaborations with audience members, theatre / film music to acoustic / electroacoustic art music. Pierre-Henri Wicomb is a South African composer based in Cape Town. With one or two exceptions, Rocco has worked closely with fiancé and Costume Designer, Mariechen Vosloo. In 2020, Rocco was awarded an ATKV Media Award for Production and Set Design for Dwaalster and Die Spreeus. Subsequently they have also partnered up for a limited television series 4 Mure. They have also tackled two television films, Somerkersfees and Rage and of course now Gaia. Rocco has since designed local drama series for director Jaco Bouwer, including Waterfront, Dwaalster and Die Spreeus. ![]() In that same year they paired up again for Die Seemeeu (a film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull). He quickly segued into Production Design and won a kykNet Silwerskerm Festival Award for his design of the critically acclaimed local feature film Kanarie, directed by Christiaan Olwagen. His transition into film started as props buyer and set decorator under the stewardship of Birrie le Roux. As a dynamic creative, specializing in all aspects of digital media production with strong leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit, he established himself as the reputable mainstay of many productions.Īfter studying drama at Stellenbosch University, Rocco has been designing theatre sets for acclaimed directors and theatres in South Africa, garnering various awards along the way. Named a visionary and leader in his field, Jorrie is a true expert. He has rubbed shoulders with influential celebrities and established himself as a sought-after Director of Photography. Since then, Jorrie has grown from strength to strength, working on some of the most successful movies and television productions in South Africa and winning numerous accolades, including coveted international awards. Jorrie joined the South African film industry in 2007 and produced his first feature film in 2013, which became a box office hit in South Africa, outperforming Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln on opening weekend. Not only a master cinematographer, he boasts extensive experience ranging from producing to directing and as a mentor to creative dreamers. Instead, Bouwer prefers to take his stories to the next level, combining the personal and the political, aesthetics with introspective enquiry and a radical formalism with an equally radical expression of subjectivity to hurl them into the realm of the imagination.Īs a seasoned director of photography, Jorrie van der Walt needs no introduction within the South African film industry. His complex cultural critique favours controversial subjects, without any attempt to solve the social and political issues they raise. This aesthetic focus has been called everything from post-modern and experimental, to avant-garde, and even subversive – but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audience, Bouwer also seeks to expose the artificial barriers that exist between and within cultures. It is, however, his unique ability to combine all these media to reflect the visual, spatial and acoustic dimensions of language that really sets his work apart. He’s equally at home in theatre, dance, site-specific performance and installation art. In his theatre work, Bouwer has created work that resists convention and easy categorisation. One of his short films this country is lonely premiered at IFFR 2019. Apart from multiple series and films made for television, Gaia is his first feature film. He has won multiple awards for his theatre productions and designs over the years. Jaco Bouwer studied and worked in theatre for many years and only recently moved into the medium of film. ![]()
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