"None of the liquid distortion in this film is post — it's mirrors, water, periscopes and reflected light, all built in front of the lens.
Either side of the five principal days, we kept shooting for six weeks as a two man documentary unit, street-casting and returning to locations until the city handed us things we could never have designed. I grew up in a mining family, only ever wanting to be a footballer. In the mine dumps around me I saw as scars on the landscape; this was the first time I got to go back and photograph them as striving monuments to the spirit of Johannesburg." Royd Ringdahl, director