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Watch Online / The Fun's Not Over (2018)
Desc: The Fun's Not Over: Directed by Michael Cross. James Phillips, who died aged 36 in July 1995, was a composer, musician, bandleader and the voice and conscience of a generation of white South Africans. His Afrikaans alter ego Bernoldus Niemand's 1983 single, "Hou My Vas Korporaal" ("Hold Me Tightly, Corporal") became an anthem of the End Conscription Campaign and spawned "alternative" Afrikaans rock music and the Voƫlvry movement. In 1985, with his beloved Cherry Faced Lurchers, he recorded the gut-wrenching "Shot Down" that addressed both white privilege and the violence of the apartheid state. "The Fun's Not Over" tells James' story in his own words and through the voices of journalists like Max du Preez, satirists Zapiro and Pieter Dirk Uys, his musical collaborators and label-mates like Koos Kombuis and Vusi Mahlesela, contemporary artists like Jack Parow and his friends and family.