Filming from the south side of life: Jan Horn's passions include film-making, mountaineering and the preservation of South Africa's cultures. He talks to Anastasia Stepanova. (Profile).

From: For A Change | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Stepanova, Anastasia | Copyright information

Words cannot describe the powerful atmosphere when Jan Horn, a documentary film producer from South Africa, presented his work at a workshop during the Renewal Arts conference this August in Caux, Switzerland.

He struck me as a man of strong will and firm convictions. He joins expeditions to Kilimanjaro and Everest, and makes films that question the ethics and social consequences of the nuclear energy programme in his country or tell the world about its indigenous cultur...

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