Composited archival footage depicting Johannesburg in 1974. Still taken from The kinolibrary (channel), 2017. (1974 Johannesburg Street Scenes ... 2017)

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... this screenshot, the appearance of analogue media is emulated not only in the fuzziness of the image, or its noise, but also in the text at the bottom of the screen, which recalls the timestamp associated with video footage such as Super8 footage. Archival footage like that in Figure 5 is characterised by the qualities of the film stock and the camera used to shoot it. This screenshot figure 3 An alien levitating a minibus. ...

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... District 9, Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema appears to have been shot during winter, and the smog and dust in the air make the landscape seem washed-out, while the abandoned structures give it a postindustrial quality. The electricity pylons and other elements in the background of the screenshots in Figures 13 and 14 are also visible in Goldblatt's photograph of mine waste areas alongside the highway that leads into Soweto from the inner city ( Figure 15). The reeds (Phragmites communis) and Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana) in Figure 14 and Goldblatt's photograph are characteristic of the sparse flora found in mine waste areas , which were planted during the 1950s to curb some of the air and water pollution caused by the mine dumps (Reichardt 2013: 100). ...

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... is known for taking analogue photographs. He experimented with some digital photography toward the end of his life, but he claimed to feel figure 15 Johannesburg from the Southwest. Photograph by David Goldblatt, 2003. ...