Necktie Youth (2015)

Anyone who grows up in Sandton spends a lot of time hanging out at pools and drugfilled parties for this part of Johannesburg is the richest spot in the whole of Africa Necktie Youth portrays this first postapartheid gilded youth in striking blackandwhite Soft colours are reserved for their childhood memories of the early years of the rainbow nation White 19yearold Emily did not understand the codes of their set and could not take the pace of the everchanging fleeting liaisons says the super cool black and privileged September when he tries to explain to a TV reporter why Emily hung herself in her parents garden She even positioned her camera in such a way that her suicide could be streamed live