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One of the more interesting-sounding films to come out of this year\u2019s Cannes festival marketplace is This Is How the World Ends<\/em>, the debut feature by South African director Robert Dos Santos. And we say \u201cinteresting-sounding\u201d because we haven\u2019t seen it yet. Why? Well, it\u2019s only available on VHS, reportedly making it the first straight-to-VHS film release in some two decades.<\/p>\n

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The Guardian<\/em> just published an interview with Dos Santos that makes for fascinating reading\u2014not least because the director casually drops the fact that he was inspired to swap his successful career as a lawyer for making films after he was menaced with a gun in his native South Africa multiple times in just a couple of months: \u201cI realised that I\u2019m going to die one day,\u201d he said, \u201cand if I\u2019m going to die, I might as well do something that I\u2019ll really, truly, passionately enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

That something was filmmaking, and if there\u2019s anything that characterizes Dos Santos\u2019s directorial career so far, it\u2019s that he clearly has a flair for doing things differently. His first short film, entitled A Moment<\/em>, is one seamless shot that was filmed by mounting a camera on a robotic arm called the Bolt-X. (The film\u2019s single shot, appropriately enough, catalogues a man getting\u2026 shot.)<\/p>\n

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