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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.
