Nosipho Dumisa wanted to run with the premise of a film she loved, but as a reflection of the claustrophobic, down-and-out neighborhoods of South Africa. Director Nosipho Dumisa grew up secretly binging on horror and thriller movies while her parents were asleep. For her first feature, she wanted to take the idea of a film she loved, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, and apply her own sensibilities to create something new. The result? Number 37, a film featuring a wheelchair-bound character, stuck in a hot, overwhelmingly red and claustrophobic room, navigating blackmail, a criminal outfit, and a sadistic loan shark...with only a pair of binoculars. “I loved Rear Window conceptually and I loved it as a film,” Dumisa told No Film School. “But Rear Window is is nothing like the world of the Cape Flats. This was how I re-imagined it.” Dumisa designed the fictional New Haven area of Cape Flats in Number 37 to be a combination of several real neighborhoods in Cape Town, originally constructed during apartheid times to keep different racial groups from leaving the area. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 22 March, 2018