Cause of Death

crush, beat, drown, hang, burn. Femicide. "Starting point for Cause of Death:Looking at the way in which images of women were marginalised historically in the archive or how they were depicted.” (Jyoti Mistry, shortsblog.berlinale.de). The file card of an anonymous autopsy report documents violent attacks as the "cause of death". Jyoti Mistry constructs five miniature vignettes to the rhythm of evocative spoken word poetry by Napo Masheane, accompanied by an extremely incompatible collection of archival bits and pieces from the EYE-Filmmuseum –­ ethnographic film footage, chorus-line films, and physical culture films.