FOR those who've only experienced the continent through the eyes of the West, Perivi Katjavivi's 'The Unseen' (2016) will seem as though it were shot in Alt-Africa.
A parallel dimension where Africa's cliché cinematic contingent of bright colours, crime, hunger, corruption, oppression and white saviours are entirely desaturated and jettisoned in favour of compelling explorations of the post-colonial psyche.
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