Palimpsests of Resistance (working title) is a hybrid film in development that merges performance, archival material, and cinematic form to explore resistance, memory, and cultural legacy. Developed in collaboration with South African artist Gamakhulu Diniso, it is grounded in artistic research and community histories from Sharpeville. Duration 2:47 min
If this be a city (Duration, 12:00 min)
A man, in a high-rise building. He is restless. He seems unable to calm the world inside his head, noises from the city penetrate his cocoon. Later, however, it is revealed that it is quiet in the room, where the man is. Not only do noises from outside oppress him, but his memories are also constantly being triggered through the voice of the doppelganger. The latter can articulate, what the man himself cannot. The film explores the poetics of space, urbanity and longing.
Screenings
20th Edition of the Videoex Internationales Experimental Film and Video Festival in Zurich, 2018
Johannesburg Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015 9 May 2015
Urban Flux Film Festival, Johannesburg 2012/201
Work in Progress- consent not to be a single being
Duration: 20:54
This audio-visual experiment attempts a speculative call and response gesture towards Eduardo Glissant's demand: consent not to be a single being. Collaborating with South African jazz drummer and scholar Tumi Mogorosi , the ongoing project stages a reading of the sociality of black life through the prism of an Apostolic Church Brass Band based in Gauteng, South Africa. The collaborative artistic research experiment focuses on the polyphonic, the more than one. Here the swarm of effects; a synaesthesiastic modality offers a way to think through/across/ within the uninteresting boundaries of the (dis)ciplines of immersive image-making and jazz improvisation. The iteration enacts a promiscuous encounter whose offspring will always be at the risk of being deformed or dislocated.
music composed by tumi mogorosi
text from DeAesthetic: Writing with and from the Black Sonic by Tumi Mogorosi
performed by tumi mogorosi (drums) mthunzi mvubu (alto sax) reza khota (guitar) ariel zamonsky (double bass) cinematography by hlengiwe mkwayi jéad stehr edit by jéad stehr .
360 Immersive 
Sustainable Human(e)Settlements: The Urban Challenge (2012)
Duration: 2:45 minThe work was conceived and produced in the context of the eponymously titled conference convened by Prof. Amira Osman at the University of Johannesburg. The film premiered at the UN-Habitat: World Urban Forum 6, Naples, Italy 2012.
My Levites (2003)
Duration:6:20 minThe work explores the lives of the young members of the St. Paul Apostolic Church of South Africa, based in Sebokeng, a township 50km south of Johannesburg. The video is part coming of age tale, part celebration of music and a portrait of my community.