INSPIRE / NEWS & ARTICLES

Gay architectural mockumentary

Posted on November 1st 2009

Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film.


Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. Centred around an art deco building near Cape Town’s Company Gardens, the short film takes a spoof-documentary approach to showcasing a handful of the fictional residents of the building. Expert commentary from Lin Sampson (Sunday Times), and professors Fabio Todeschini and John Caviggia (University of Cape Town), contrast the characters’ outrageous exploits, which recall early John Waters.

  • Q110: Twenty Ten

    Magazine Cover
    The "Twenty Ten" edition is a design celebration of the world's first FIFA World Cup on African soil. Is it really 2010, finally?
    R50.00
  • Q409: Protofarm 2050

    Magazine Cover
    The Protofarm 2050 edition dismisses the notion of a monolithic answer to the future, rather celebrating a multi-platform approach.
    R50.00

Facebook Comments