A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
November 20, 2024
Original Title:
I Wan’na Be Like You
Genres:
Animation | Music
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 13
The viewer is lured deep into a dilapidated glasshouse, a place where nature is traditionally tamed and studied, by a ghostly figure, dancing to a variation on the popular song from Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). As the music fades out, he makes way for the vocal group Black Harmony, offering a reinterpretation of the song in their own language - Lugbara. I Wan’na Be Like You deconstructs and reconstructs the novel, film, that song and their legacies.
Cinematography:
Persijn Broersen
Director:
Margit Lukács
Persijn Broersen
Editor:
Persijn Broersen
Music:
Black Harmony
Ellister van der Molen
Jos Machtell
Gerlo Hesselink
Frederik van den Berghe
Producer:
Persijn Broersen
Margit Lukács
Production Design:
Margit Lukács
Persijn Broersen
Lisa Dieterle
Leonardo Reuvekamp
Sound Designer:
Berend Dubbe
Writer:
Margit Lukács
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