The Art of Healing
Duration: 15’40”
Producer: Tina Stallard
| Timecode | Pictures | Sound/FX | Script |
| 10.00.00.00 | Title “The Art of Healing” over pan across Eastern Cape Province landscape | Music: Singing in Cathedral
| Singing in cathedral
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| 10.00.09.00 | Keiskamma Trust workers singing in Southwark Cathedral |
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| 10.00.11.00 | CU hands opening altarpiece |
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| 10.00.12.00 | Keiskamma Trust workers singing in Southwark Cathedral |
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| 10.00.12.30 | Children sharing a cup of water |
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| 10.00.13.00 | Low angle altarpiece opening |
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| 10.00.14.00 | Family sitting outside metal shack |
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| 10.00.15.00 | Sign: Welcome to Hamburg |
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| 10.00.16.00 | Detail altarpiece |
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| 10.00.17.00 | Keiskamma River sunset |
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| 10.00.18.00 | CU counting pills |
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| 10.00.19.00 | Keiskamma Trust workers singing in Southwark Cathedral |
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| 10.00.21.00 | CU counting pills |
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| 10.00.22.00 | Women washing clothes outside | Eunice Mangwane interview: | With antiretrovirals |
| 10.00.24.00 | Mother and children outside Treatment Centre |
| and with the programme |
| 10.00.25.00 | CU pouring pills on tray |
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| 10.00.26.00 | Mother and daughter walk under washing line |
| We have saved a lot of people’s lives |
| 10.00.27.00 | Eunice Mangwane in vision |
| .. and it has saved my children’s lives as well. |
| 10.00.29.00 | Keiskamma Trust workers singing in Southwark Cathedral |
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| 10.00.30.00 | Woman pouring grain in bowl |
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| 10.00.32.00 | Detail altarpiece |
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| 10.00.33.00 | Altarpiece opens, reveals drugs cabinet at Treatment Centre | Carol Hofmeyr interview: | it’s a dual thing you do for people – |
| 10.00.36.00 | Carol Hofmeyr in vision |
| you make their bodies better and you give their lives meaning through art |
| 10.00.39.00 | Detail altarpiece |
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| 10.00.40.00 | Keiskamma Trust workers singing in Southwark Cathedral |
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| 10.00.41.00 | Boys digging for sweet potatoes |
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| 10.00.43.00 | Keiskamma Trust workers singing in Southwark Cathedral |
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| 10.00.44.00 | Children playing |
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| 10.00.47.00 | Ext Southwark Cathedral | Bells chime |
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| 10.00.52.00 | Ext Southwark Cathedral |
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| 10.00.57.00 | Low angle pushing box along paving stones | Track:
| Southwark Cathedral in London is preparing for the unveiling of the Keiskamma Altarpiece. |
| 10.00.59.00 | Workmen wheel box into cathedral | Drumming |
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| 10.01.01 | CU taking screws out of packing case |
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| 10.01.03.00 | Opening box |
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| 10.01.05.00 | Tearing plastic off panels |
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| 10.01.07.00 | Workmen prepare frame | Up sof | One goes here and one goes over there |
| 10.01.09.00 | Panels on cathedral floor | Track:
| Fourteen panels of embroidery, beadwork and photographs make up the altarpiece -- which will be on display in the North Transept. |
| 10.01.18.00 | Carrying panel into transept |
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| 10.01.20.00 | Assembling altarpiece – time lapse | Track:
| It was made 6000 miles away in the village of Hamburg in South Africa. More than a hundred women worked for six months to create this work of art – which tells the story of AIDS as they have experienced it. |
| 10.01.33.00 | Carol Hofmeyr climbs ladder to adjust beadwork on altarpiece | Track: | The idea came from Carol Hofmeyer – a doctor and an artist who runs the Keiskamma Trust in Hamburg. |
| 10.01.38.00 | CU Carol up ladder | Up sof + Interview | Is that better? I work as a doctor in this village and I have long jumped in this work between art and health |
| 10.01.47.00 | Carol interview in cathedral ASTON: Dr Carol Hofmeyr Keiskamma Trust | Interview | It deals with Aids in telling a story – telling stories – making people connect with other people who have suffered, making people see that their story is a story that counts |
| 10.02.00.00 | Altarpiece: pan across funeral panel | Interview | and is valued. So I think the point of it is to show that and to show that these are people with dignity like everybody else who have had to bear unbearable things |
| 10.02.18.00 | WS Keiskamma Trust workers rehearsing in cathedral, Carol Hofmeyr conducting | Singing | “Be Bright in the Corner” |
| 10.02.21.00 | Low angle singers |
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| 10.02.22.00 | Singers’ feet dancing |
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| 10.02.26.00 | Tilt up Eunice Mangwane singing | Track: | Some of the women who made the altarpiece have come to London for the exhibition – they’re rehearsing for an important fundraising event for the Keiskamma Trust. |
| 10.02.36.00 | GV Keiskamma River + reeds by bank |
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| 10.02.40.00 | Top shot Hamburg + river + Indian ocean | Track: | Hamburg lies on the banks of the Keiskamma River, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province – it’s a rural area, with great poverty and deprivation. |
| 10.02.45.00 | Young boys herding goats |
| Carol moved there eight year ago |
| 10.02.55.00 | Carol Hofmeyr interview | Carol Hofmeyr interview | When I came to Hamburg it was the first time believe it or not that I realised what were the realities of living not knowing if tomorrow you’ve got enough food or if you can get a sick child to hospital or if the ambulance will come were brought home to me and then the absolutely beautiful physical environment which is very unspoilt and those two things made me want to do something so |
| 10.03.25.23 | Women sewing for art project |
| that people had some money – some income and that when I started the embroidery project |
| 10.03.33.00 | Southwark Cathedral, tilt down from stained glass window to altarpiece | Track: | In 2005 the Altarpiece was made – a picture of life in a community where one in six adults is HIV positive or has AIDS. |
| 10.03.43.00 | Altarpiece: zoom into face of widow on front panel | Track: | The front panel shows a widow in front of the cross – wearing traditional mourning clothes - after her husband has died of AIDS. |
| 10.03.51.00 | Altarpiece: pan across children’s faces |
| Her children stand beside her – representing AIDS orphans across Africa. |
| 10.03.57.00 | WS Altarpiece |
| On either side stand two respected village elders – |
| 10.04.02.00 | Detail altarpiece: CU Leginah |
| Leginah dressed in her church clothes – the other - |
| 10.04.04.00 | Detail altarpiece: CU Susan |
| Susan – has lost her youngest son to AIDS |
| 10.04.08.00 | Detail altarpiece: mourners at graveyard |
| – his death and funeral are shown in the bottom panel |
| 10.04.12.00 | Slo-mo altarpiece doors open | Track: | Inside the first set of doors is a vibrant and colourful vision of a different life in Hamburg – the women were asked to picture abundance and life without suffering – a life without AIDS and poverty. |
| 10.04.25.00 | Detail altarpiece second panel: tilt down tree and birds to people | Track: | In an extraordinary coincidence - anti retroviral drugs – ARVs - became available for the first time in South Africa while the women were sewing the panels. Everyone knew that there were people in the village who had started taking the drugs – and were beginning to get better. |
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| Carol Hofmeyr interview | Carol Hofmeyr interview | It was an indirect synchronous thing that happened. There was in effect not a heavenly resurrection, but people call it the |
| 10.04.51.00 | Details second panel + choir singing + angel | Carol Hofmeyr interview | Lazarus effect dying people got up and walked and that happened simultaneously so I think some of that is stitched into the altarpiece. |
| 10.05.01.00 | Altarpiece – 2nd layer doors open slo-mo
| Track: | The second set of doors opens to show three life-size photographs of local grandmothers with their grandchildren. They represent the strength and resilience of grandmothers across Africa who have taken on the burden of caring for the millions of children orphaned by AIDS. |
| 10.05.20.00 | Low angle altarpiece third layer | Track: | The outer panels show the Keiskamma river and the mountains – scenes of peace and tranquillity. |
| 10.05.26.00 | CUs artists names on panel and family members names |
| The artists have sewn their names here and also the names of relatives who have died. |
| 10.05.31.00 | Carol Hofmeyr talking by altarpiece + part overlay names | Carol Hofmeyr interview | When we made this in 2005 a lot of people where still not prepared to admit that family members had died, so it could have been very sensitive, so only people who knew that their own family member or their own family wouldn’t mind if the names were recorded here. Have put their names on here as a kind of memorial to them. |
| 10.05.56.00 | Keiskamma Art Project workers | Up sof | Blue-ish green, blue-ish green |
| 10.05.59.00 | WS workers making tapestry in village hall | Track: | Back in Hamburg, women from the Keiskamma art project are creating a new tapestry – |
| 10.06.03.00 | Sketch of tapestry |
| a giant wall hanging of African trees |
| 10.06.06.00 | Women laying out cloth on backing |
| commissioned by a construction company in Johannesburg. |
| 10.06.08.00 | Zukiswa sewing | Track: | Zukiswa has been part of the project from the start and worked on the original altarpiece. |
| 10.06.14.00 | Zukiswa interview Aston: Zukiswa Zitha Art Project Worker
Subtitles: The project is important to me because I was not working, I was just sitting at home. Now I am working I can contribute money to the household. I am able to buy my kids whatever they need, so it is very important to me because this is where I learned to sew. Now I can sew well there’s nothing that I can’t do, since I started working with the project. | Zukiswa interview in Xhosa | Interview in Xhosa
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| 10.06.48.00 | Zukiswa laughing and eating cake at daughter’s birthday party |
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| 10.06.50.00 | Children sing “happy birthday” | Singing | “Happy Birthday” in Xhosa |
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| Track: | Zukiswa’s elder daughter, Sixolono (pron: see-no-kho’-no), is ten today and the family is celebrating. |
| 10.07.02.00 | Zukiswa putting cake in box | Track: | Zukiswa is HIV positive but neither of her two daughters is infected. Although she is now healthy, she knows how lucky she is |
| 10.07.11.00 | Guests at party |
| – her brother died of AIDS - just before ARVs - became available in South Africa. |
| 10.07.18.00 | Nurse at treatment centre with a mother, talking about her ARV drugs | Up sof | You’ll start tomorrow morning and then you can go home shortly. And I think Tandie has gone over each of the drugs and the side effects, so we’ll go over that tomorrow when you start. |
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| ARVs are now a way of life for many people and AIDS is no longer a death sentence. |
| 10.07.34.00 | Nurse translates into Xhosa | Up sof | Xhosa |
| 10.07.37.00 | Family at Treatment Centre | Track: | Here at the Keiskamma Trust HIV and Aids Treatment Centre – people come from villages all around to be assessed and begin their treatment. |
| 10.07.46.00 | Carol Hofmeyr with nurses at Treatment Centre | Track | Carol started the centre and is the only doctor working there – she believes caring for people’s health, enabling them to earn a living and art are all closely linked. |
| 10.07.58.00 | Patient in bed at Treatment Centre | Carol Hofmeyr interview | There is very little point in making people better if they can’t earn an income, |
| 10.08.03.00 | Carol Hofmeyr interview | Interview | and the aids epidemic all over Africa has made people realize that the treatment of HIV is completely holistic, unless you look at the family, unless you look at their income, unless you give them a meaning for life, which is what art can do, |
| 10.08.18.00 | Nurses preparing drugs at Treatment Centre | Track: | Although people often recover their health quickly when they start ARVs, they have to take them for the rest of their life, so it’s important to monitor them regularly. |
| 10.08.30.00 | LS Nosisa walking through village | Track: | So the treatment centre employs a team of village health workers to do that – |
| 10.08.33.00 | CU Nosisa |
| Nosisa is one of them. She looks after people in her village and the surrounding area. |
| 10.08.40.00 | Nosisa walks through gate |
| The exhibition of the altarpiece in London is raising money to pay her salary – and the salary of the other village health workers. |
| 10.08.46.00 | Nosisa walks to door of tin house Subtitles: Knock knock | Up sof | Xhosa |
| 10.08.50.00 | MS Nomvusleleo Subtitles: (Nosisa) How are you today? (Nomvuselelo) I am fine thank you and how are you? | Up sof | Xhosa |
| 10.09.04.03 | Hands and drugs | Track | Nomvuselelo has AIDS – so she’s on ARVs. It’s a complicated cocktail of drugs twice a day - and Nosisa is checking that she is taking them correctly. |
| 10.09.07.00 | Var shots Nosisa + Nomvuselelo + drugs Subtitles: (Nom) These are for today. (Nos) OK, open them and explain to me how you will take them. (Nom) This morning I took Zerit, 3TC, and Nevirapine. (Nos) This morning? (Nom) Yes, this morning at 8 o’clock. And then again, tonight at 8 o’clock I’m going to take these. | Up sof | Xhosa |
| 10.09.37.00 | Ext Nomvuselelo’s home + goat grazing | Interview Carol Hofmeyr | Without village health workers we would have almost no access to the homes and lives of the patients we are treating it’s essential to know what is going on |
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| at their home and when there is a problem, someone can report it to us |
| 10.09.48.00 | Nosisa greets family sitting outside their home | Track: | Jobs here are scarce - and the money Nosisa earns from her work means she can pay for food for her family and for the education of her children. |
| 10.09.57.00 | Nomathemba walks up to Phumza’s house and calls out greeting | Up sof |
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| 10.10.03.00 | Phumza walks into shot on crutches and greets Nomathemba | Track | Many people living with AIDS have other health problems and need the support of the village health workers. Phumza has recently been to hospital because of severe pains in her legs. The doctor gave her crutches and told her he didn’t know what was wrong with her. |
| 10.10.16.00 | Nomathemba + Phumza talk Subtitles: (N) How are your knees? (P) It’s on and off, some of the time it’s ok and sometimes it’s not so good. | Up sof | Xhosa |
| 10.10.21.00 | Phumza interview ASTON: Phumza Mkatshwa |
| The problems with my legs. Dr Baker write me a letter to go to the orthopaedic clinic in Frere Hospital and there Dr Cass told me I never walk without crutches because there is nothing they can do. (cries) They didn’t know what is it I am having, so now I am walking with crutches I think it is my whole life. |
| 10.11.04.00 | Nomathemba + Phumza talking | Track: | Nomathemba has been visiting Phumza regularly, ever since she discovered she was HIV positive. |
| 10.11.10.00 | Nomathemba interview ASTON: Nomathemba Ngqondi Village Health Worker
| Interview | She came to me one day and she disclosed her status to me and we sit down and we talk and talk. I just give her moral support , that it is not the end of her life, she must just continue as it was before. |
| 10.11.19.00 | Phumza interview | Interview | Nomathemba helped me the first time I am diagnosed the first time I am diagnosed HIV positive. She has a care about you , she was like my sister or my mum. |
| 10.11.48.00 | LS Caroline walks through village and picks up child | Track: | Caroline is also a village health worker, but she has first hand experience of AIDS. She is on ARVs herself, so she knows exactly what it’s like for the people she visits. |
| 10.12.01.00 | Caroline counts drugs with family Subtitles: You will never stop taking these pills until you die. Just like diabetic tablets. Just like high blood pressure tablets. When you feel better, you are not supposed to throw them away and stop taking them, you take the tablets for ever. | Up sof | Xhosa |
| 10.12.24.00 | Caroline interview ASTON: Caroline Futshane Village Health Worker | Interview | When I found out that I am HIV pos, I think about my children, they are too young, they need to go to school, they need a mother. So I stand up for myself and I said I am going to help other people, to be like me, to know that to be HIV pos is not the end of the world. |
| 10.12.56.00 | Carol at Art Project |
| For Carol the health work and the art go hand in hand. |
| 10.13.02.00 | Carol Hofmeyr interview | Interview | For a long time when I worked in medicine it began to seem pointless and that’s when I studied art, and art gives meaning and people have to get better to get to a life that has meaning and (in vision) art is something that gives people that meaning so it s a dual thing you do for people – you make their bodies better and you give their lives meaning through art. |
| 10.13.23.00 | Altarpiece opens to show triptych of grandmothers – Eunice at centre | Track | Eunice Mangwane is the grandmother at the centre of the altarpiece with her grandchildren, one is HIV positive. She also works as an HIV and AIDS counsellor at the treatment centre. |
| 10.13.36.00 | Eunice Mangwane interview ASTON: Eunice Mangwane HIV/AIDS Counsellor | Interview | The altarpiece I would describe it as something that has broken the barriers between the infected and the affected, it has brought healing within our community, it has brought hope within our community this altarpiece really. |
| 10.13.59.00 | Keiskamma Trust workers singing in front of altarpiece, Eunice dances past | Singing | “We are walking in the light of God” |
| 10.14.06.00 | People looking at altarpiece | Track: | It’s the night of the Keiskamma Trust event to raise money for the village health workers in Hamburg. |
| 10.14.13.00 | Pan down first panel | Up sof | The first panel – it’s about crucifixion. We all know the bible stories. |
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| …and these children here, as you can see, those are orphans. Their parents died of HIV and AIDS and they are left with no parents. |
| 10.14.27.00 | Low angle altarpiece first layer opens | Applause |
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| 10.14.35.00 | Artist introduces second layer | Up sof | On that side you will see there is the tree of hope. Down there you will find our community of people.. |
| 10.14.43.00 | W/S Altarpiece opening 2nd layer from behind crowd | Track: | The evening ends with a message from Eunice, dedicated to all those affected by HIV and AIDS. |
| 10.14.48.00 | Eunice singing | Singing | “ You Must Never Give Up” |
| 10.15.03.000 | Pan across three grandmothers on altarpiece |
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| 10.15.11.00 | CU Eunice singing |
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| 10.15.17.00 | Detail altarpiece: pan across world |
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| 10.15.26.00 | Other singers, pan to Eunice at end of song |
| Thank you |
| 10.15.37.00 | Fade to black | Applause |
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| Credits: Produced and filmed by Tina Stallard |
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For more information:
Tina Stallard
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