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=''[[Die Laaste Woord]]'', an animated film by [[Diek Grobler]]=
 
=''[[Die Laaste Woord]]'', an animated film by [[Diek Grobler]]=
  
==The original text==
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Facebook entry, the film was due for completion by the end of 2019, combining traditional and digital animation techniques such as cut-outs, drawing on paper, and 2D digital animation effects.
 
 
Referred to as a [[poësiefliek]] ("poetry film"), it is an animated interpretation of a poem called ''Vanishing Voices'' by [[Martjie Bosman]], a contemplation of the loneliness of someone who has become the last spealker of a dying language. It is Bosman's response to the perceived threat that her own mother tongue, [[Afrikaans]], may disappear.
 
 
 
In the film, animator [[Diek Grobler]] creates a character who literally is the last speaker of a dying language, and then goes through the world, seeking someone who can still understand her. 
 
 
 
The idea for the film was first posted by Grobler on his Facebook page in 2016, and was selected as a concept to be pitched at the Mifa pitching session at the Annecy International Animation Festival in France on 11-16 June, 2018.
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:38, 31 July 2022

Die Laaste Woord ("The Last Word") can refer any one of two South African media works:

Die Laaste Woord, an animated film by Diek Grobler

Facebook entry, the film was due for completion by the end of 2019, combining traditional and digital animation techniques such as cut-outs, drawing on paper, and 2D digital animation effects.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://www.facebook.com/diekgrobler.artist/posts/laaste-woord-working-title-is-n-animasiefilm-geinspireer-deur-n-gedig-van-martji/541120379397901/

Beeld, 24 April 2018.

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Die Laaste Woord, a radio play by Lee Doubell

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Broadcast on Radio Sonder Grense on 13 Mei 2021

Sources

https://www.rsgplus.org/donderdagaand-die-laaste-woord/

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