Films
Land is in the Air series
Land is in the AirA Button Without a HoleWorking the Land The films started from an anecdote about my ancestor, Richard Gush. On arriving in Salem, South Africa, he deliberately built a church before building a house for his family – the act of work, a way to claim his […]
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S.G., 59 Joubert Street, Johannesburg
This was supposed to be a different film. But like most of life right now it was overtaken by the pandemic and the questions I wanted to ask became filtered through my experience of this moment. Many of the questions that were bothering me are not new but have now […]
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Waiting in a Platinum City
Surrounding Rustenburg are a number of platinum and chrome mines. While jobs in the mining industry are in a steady decline. Many people both from within South Africa and from the neighbouring countries still make their way to the area in search of work. The repeal of apartheid-era spatial controls […]
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World of Trophies
Queer South African filmmaker, Victoria Wigzell, sets out to make a documentary on the value of a trophy as cold, hard currency in winning and losing. She tracks the lifecycle of a trophy through the sites of its expression around the city of Johannesburg; from production line and the hands […]
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