After Robot: Kwaito Music in Johannesburg

2002

Simon Klose's half-hour film on kwaito, shot in Johannesburg and edited for Swedish television. Kwaito is house slowed to around 110 bpm - by the testimony of the people who made it, not a South African branch of hip-hop, which is how almost every reference work still files it. Filmed close to the ground, in the townships where it was made.