SJ van Breda is celebrated for her cinematic documentaries about South African artists. “The One Year Anniversary” is a departure. In this four-minute drama set in the COVID era, a young healthcare worker devises a surprising way to safely hug her mother. This bitter-sweet film—rich in powerful closeups— was shot vertically using a Xiaomi Mi…
read more →SJ van Breda is a master at using film art to celebrate the work and philosophies of South African artists. “A State of Flow” continues van Breda’s mission, giving us a dazzling mini-doc about the painter Sarah Grace. While the movie is making the festival rounds, the one-minute teaser gives us a glimpse of the…
read more →Surprise is a key element of authentic art. It tells us that there are new things under the sun. In her latest documentary “Symphony of Spheres” South African filmmaker SJ van Breda artfully uses cinematic surprises to take us into the world of the abstract sculptor Brendon Edwards. The result is a dazzling and memorable…
read more →When we see a movie that we love, many of us find that a “making of” video enhances our appreciation of the work. The same phenomenon applies with oil painting, as we see in SJ van Breda’s “Jane Digby,” a short documentary about a noted South African artist. This beautiful behind the scenes video reveals…
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