Michael Raeburn
Directing
Biography
Studied at Alfred Beit School and St. Georges School in Rhodesia. Studied at the University of Rhodesia in 1964. French Honours Degree, London University. Doctorial thesis on cinema, University of Aix en Provence. Lives between Southern Africa, Paris and London.
Known For
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
The Grass Is Singing
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.
Requiem for a Village
Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. Triomf is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the first democratic election in South Africa.
Triomf
A young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.
Jit
Once touted as Zimbabwe's saviour, Robert Mugabe has become synonymous with bad government and misrule. But where did it all go wrong?
Zimbabwe Countdown
An experimental movie shot in the USA and Africa reconstructing childhood memories using inanimate objects in their original locations with off-screen actors playing the protagonists. A journey from New York to Boston for a Thanksgiving also provides a documentary-styled debate between a couple (the film makers) on the postive and negative aspects of family life.
Home Sweet Home
This film explores the conflicts within Rhodesian society in 1969.