A project for Novo: Pristine Africa

NovoArgumente (the German sister mag of Spiked) is probably the freshest free-thinking, radically humanistic German publication there is. Thus we were very happy to produce a short film for a recent public debate they organised in Berlin. On the occasion of reaching the 7th billion human living on our planet the topic was “The Great Population Debate”. The (arguably fairly provocative) film deals with the idea of “keeping Africa small”, which is basically the idea of maltreating Africans in the interest of a higher, Western ideal. It’s the idea that the material comforts and welfare we (in the West) rely on are not appropriate or possible for Africans. The film consists of a sort of manifesto that satirically describes a future vision for Africa.

The debate was a satellite event of the annual Battle of Ideas. Support was given by the British Council and the Tilsiter Lichtspiele. The narrator is Steve Taylor from Voice Pool. And yes, we did use stock footage for this.