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Banned 2024
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IN SEARCH OF SOUTH AFRICA’S CENSORED PAST
Written by Timothy NiwamanyaThe concerted push for more-inclusive story-telling that gives visibility to disenfranchised sections of society is a central tenet of the global contemporary creative zeitgeist. This is helping in the undoing of decades of omission and misrepresentation of many marginalised communities in the arts.
Naledi Bogacwi’s documentary feature film, Banned, brings the discussion home by confronting state-sanctioned film censorship and the policing of black creative practice in Apartheid South Africa.…
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Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa 2024
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INTERSECTIONALITY AND RESISTANCE
Written by Timothy NiwamanyaDecoloniality, as a school of thought and action, has been central to dismantling the vestiges of cultural, economic and psychological imperialism among historically-oppressed people around the world. It critiques and deconstructs widely-held colonial attitudes, white supremacist narratives and artificial social hierarchies to validate and affirm suppressed native knowledge and lived experience. Tara Moore’s directorial debut, Legacy: The Decolonized History of South Africa, is a documentary that wears its heart on its sleeve to…
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Don't Think Twice 2016
Trying to pursue a career in the arts is in many ways a double-edged sword. On one hand, you want to use your art to express your essence as a person or your view of the world even if you do not ever achieve a level of mass appeal and this is definitely a purist stand-point. On the other hand, you want what you do to be appreciated and have your work gain some recognition and even better be able…
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