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‘The Man With the Crooked Arm’ Creator Perivi Katjavivi on Using Genre to Revisit Germany’s Colonial Crimes in Africa
The director's first episodic series is a Western period drama that explores the crimes of the colonial era that shaped modern-day Namibia.
“The Man With the Crooked Arm,” a Western drama series created by Perivi Katjavivi that was presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market, is the latest attempt by the Namibian filmmaker to wrestle with the legacy of German colonialism in his southern African nation. The series is based on the real-life Jonker Afrikaner, “a notorious figure, a bit of a badass — essentially, a cowboy and bandit who, along with his father, came into Namibia in the 1800s and caused chaos and transformed the place with the Bible and guns,” says Katjavivi, whose sophomore feature, “Under the Hanging Tree,” plays this week at the Joburg Film Festival. Indeed, the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival was awarded to French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop for “ Dahomey,” a documentary about France’s attempt to correct colonial-era injustices with the return of looted artifacts to the West African nation of Benin.
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