Cinema Is Wasted on Cinema (2016)

In my experiment, Cinema Is Wasted on Cinema (2016), the logic of the dominance of single frame, the privileging of narrative and the tyranny of the monofocal camera apparatus is dismantled. The conceptual register of entanglement is instantiated through the non-representational imagery via affective tactics of the painterly treatment of the plastic nature of digital image making.

The work mobilises techniques of projection mapping and the assemblage of disparate audiovisual sources to make an argument for the architectonic possibilities of cinematic practice. Working with ironic distrust of the textual, this blot of my conceptual mapping will privilege visuals from the film as a primary rhetorical device.I explore the idea of positioning cinematic practice on the city as an important method of knowledge production. In the first instance, I will create an agglutinative map of reading contemporary film practices and texts. The case studies include Conversations On A Sunday Afternoon (2005) directed by Khalo Matabane. I Mike What I Like (2006), a spoken word film made by Jyoti Mistry and Steve Mokwena’s experimental film, Driving with Fanon (2005).