YOLO is a recording made on S16mm film in roughly one take. It is a direct result of a syncsound production workshop held in June 2014 for the Eat My Dust youth film collective based in the Kliptown district of Soweto, South Africa. The shots of diverse optical ruptures resulted from less skilled young film makers constantly create delicate fractures in the scene. The film was shot in the burned-out ruins of Soweto’s historic Sans Souci Cinema (1948-1998). Shots of sky, brick, and a skewed horizon seem to have been captured through the cracks in a (kino-) mirror. Overlapping these shots are the strange noises and voices of Soweto such as shouting, raps, and laughter. The shots often appear reversed, accompanied by a cracking noise. Nothing happens in general, yet something is occurring incessantly.
