Title: “Perfect Wild – Namibia”
Genre: Observational travel & ethnographic documentary
Running time: 76 minutes
Format: 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio; colour; stereo soundtrack
Resolution: shot in 4K and transcoded to HD for projection
Synopsis:
It’s been said that space is the final frontier. But if you’re stuck here on Earth, then the final frontier is Namibia.
Join film makers Arnold and Marilyn Kopff on an epic 40-day self-guided, self-drive 4×4 expedition as they explore the fabulous wildernesses of Namibia.
Experience the planet’s oldest and most remarkable landscapes.
Traverse stoney and sandy deserts and stand on the top of some of the world’s tallest dunes on the Atlantic coast. Travel overland to Namibia’s most northerly point and spend time with the Himba people who continue their centuries-old lifestyle and who are still largely unaffected by the outside world.
Trek by foot across the red dunes of the Kalhari Desert and descend into the world’s second largest canyon. Wend your way though the other-worldly ruins of Kolmanskop – once the world’s richest diamond field – now a ghost town being engulfed by the desert.
See the enormous star-shaped dunes and the thousand year old petrified camel thorn trees entombed on the clay pans at Sossusvlei.
See wildlife up close from ground-level photographic hides; see elephants swimming and track giraffe, oryx, springbok, wildebeest, lions, cheetah and leopards. Marvel at Namibia’s unique desert-adapted wildlife which has physical and behavioural differences to their east-African counterparts.
And finally, confront rhinos on foot at a distance of 5 metres.
“Perfect Wild – Namibia” will allow you to experience the final frontier while keeping your feet firmly on the ground.
Synopsis for “With the Himba at Epupa”:
Title: “With the Himba at Epupa”
Genre: Observational travel & ethnographic documentary
Running time: 11 minutes
Format: 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio; colour; stereo soundtrack
Resolution: shot in 4K and transcoded to HD for projection
Synopsis:
The Himba people live at Epupa Falls in the remote far north of Namibia. But there’s no town because the Himba are semi-nomadic goat herders who follow a traditional lifestyle.
Himba live in a clan with their extended family rather than in a village, and because of where and how they choose to live the Himba are unaffected by the outside world: there’s no electricity, cars, telephones, television or internet. Indeed, a Himba clan’s wealth and prestige is measured simply by the number of goats they own.
The Himba continue a lifestyle which has remained largely unchanged for many centuries.