There are over 550,000 active private security guards in South Africa, much more than the number of police and soldiers combined. Fear Fokol takes a nightly ride into the fears and anxieties of the city’s prosperous inhabitants by following the work of the private security guards hired to protect them. The illusion of security slowly dissolves as we dig into a fragile climate of inequality, paranoia and masculinity in crisis.
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Fear Fokol
BY
Tuva Björk
About the artist
Tuva Björk is a documentary filmmaker born in Helsinki. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and a master’s in Fine Arts in Film, both from Valand Academy of Art. Her video works have been exhibited in Gothenburg City Museum, Konstepidemin, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, etc. Her works often deal with the ways humans relate to the natural world and the conventions that exist around the representation of nature in the contemporary media landscape. Tuva is currently working on her first feature documentary project Laws of the Wild in collaboration with Sally Jacobson.