As part of the public programming for her retrospective For Dear Life Penny Siopis selects four films by fellow South African filmmakers who, in different ways, engage concerns that have also been key to her work. The audience will gain a wider appreciation of the complex social and political relations in which Siopis’ production is embedded.
In the presence of Penny Siopis
Thursday 23 January, 19.00
Mezzanine Screening Room
Entrance: 4 euros
Milisuthando Bongela
Gabrielle Goliath
William Kentridge
Liza Key
Selected by Penny Siopis
PROGRAMME
Liza Key, A Question of Madness (1999).
Documentary on the life of Dimitri Tsafendas, the Greek Mozambican who stabbed to death the Prime Minister of South Africa the architect of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd, in Parliament in Cape Town in 1966. The film exposes the deep wounds that apartheid inflicted on South Africa.
52’
Courtesy of the artist
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William Kentridge, Mine (1991) by William Kentridge.
Soho Eckstein, a fictional character, appears as mine owner. With his bed as rock face, Soho excavates his empire – playing off the hard facts of deep level mining against the safe concerns of ecological conservation.
5’ 50”
Courtesy of the artist
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Gabrielle Golliath, Chorus (2021)
Two-channel video installation.
The work reflects on rape culture and femicide in South Africa in relation to the murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana, a 19-year old student at the University of Cape Town, who was raped, tortured and bludgeoned to death by Luyanda Botha, who worked at her local post office. Members of the University of Cape Town Choir sound a lament for Uyinene Mrwetyana – not as song, but the internally generated resonance of a hum, collectively sustained as a mutual offering of breath.
23’ 29”
Courtesy of the artist
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BREAK
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Milisuthando Bongela, Milisuthando (2023)
Documentary set in past, present, and future South Africa. The work is an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by a filmmaker who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over.
128’
Courtesy of the artist
TICKETS
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