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An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death but hides the structural and recurrent violence on women’s bodies that leads to femicide. Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed. (Berlinale catalogue 2020)
Cause of Death (2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nov 30, 2020 · The topic of violence against women is hardly new, but Jyoti Mistry manages to find a fresh angle to it with the short documentary 'Cause of Death'.
Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed. Cast. Crew.
- Jyoti Mistry
Cause of Death (S) is a film directed by Jyoti Mistry with Animation, Self: Napo Masheane. Year: 2020. Original title: Cause of Death. Synopsis: Whereas autopsy reports define the cause of death, Cause of Death describes structural violence against women as the essential base of femicide.
- Animation
- Jyoti Mistry
- South Africa
- Animation. Drama | Short Film (Animated)
Cause of Death: Directed by Jyoti Mistry. With Napo Masheane.
IDFA 2020. A timeless and universal phenomenon: violence against women and femicide. Women are beaten, drowned, hanged, burned, or stoned. The detached tone of autopsy reports stating the causes of death makes them no less vivid: skull base fracture, carbon monoxide poisoning, cardiac arrest, suffocation, ruptured organs.
