Framing Sutherland

The Broad and The Narrow Way, a christian painting familiar to many Boer homes in South Africa, depicts two possible ways of life. On the broad way, people live undisciplined, progressively sinful lives that result in punishment in the afterlife. While on the narrow way only a few climb a steep shepherd’s way that leads – without gratification – to god. The road in Sutherland, a small South African community in the middle of an arid Karoo landscape, is broad and dusty… The short documentary is a collection of impressions that examines the painting, and religious motives of burden, sin and rest to reflect the difference in possibilities that still exists between many ethnic communities in the South African town of Sutherland.