2024 | Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK, Germany | Short

I Wan’na Be Like You

  • Sranan Tongo - 13 mins
  • Director | Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen
  • Writer | Margit Lukács
  • Producer | Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen

STATUS: Released

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The viewer is lured deep into a dilapidated glasshouse, a place where nature is traditionally tamed and studied, by a ghostly figure, dancing to a variation on the popular song from Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). As the music fades out, he makes way for the vocal group Black Harmony, offering a reinterpretation of the song in their own language. I Wan’na Be Like You deconstructs and reconstructs the novel, film, that song and their legacies.

Experimental Film Postcolonial Critique Virtual Reality Botanical Gardens Cultural Reinterpretation
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