Lost in a ciné-trance, adrift in the ghost worlds of personal and colonial archives, filmmaker Arya explores her relationship with the camera while confronting its complex role in making and unmaking the historically colonised world.
‘A Girl and a Gun’ reveals a South African filmmaker’s dreamlike observations of her ever-changing world and stares down the barrel of the colonial lens. The film takes us on a spiralling journey through personal and historical archives, setting intimate domestic moments, family history, scenes from a country in flux and fragments of travel against the big frames of an omnipotent history.
