Afrika Shox
From Videoville
artist: Leftfield
director: Chris Cunningham
label: Sony
commissioner: Mike O'Keefe
year: 1999
treatment
(excerpted) We open on a travelling shot down an alleyway toward a figure stumbling upwards.
He moves into the light and we see him in full, black, dreadlocked, quite well-built but seriously in need of some help.
His face drenched in sweat, eyes pale; the man is panicked, delirious. We follow him out into the street as the beats kick in.
It is New York, present day, morning. The public rush by on a long lens, on their way to work. We feel the enormous mass of the rush hour engulf the man as he staggers on.
Suddenly out of nowhere a city-type carrying a briefcase bumps hard into him and his arm is knocked clean off at the elbow. We see it hit the floor and shatter in slow motion.
It gives us the impression that this strange crumbling disease is a voodoo curse of some kind.
