Reframing Africa - Restructuring the self
| When: | Saturday, 20 October 2018 - Sunday, 21 October 2018 |
| Where: | Off campus Market Photo Workshop Auditorium, 138 Lilian Ngyoi Street, Newtown |
| Start time: | 10:00 |
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The Wits History Workshop and the Wits School of Arts Film & Television Division will host this two-day event.
Following on from last year's successful Reframing Africa this year’s four major themes are conceived as exercises in thinking about the question of restructuring the self as part of a decolonising project using the archive as a resource.
- Examining the cinema archive to understand Africans’ encounters with modernity and their roles in shaping it
- Africans as agents of their own destinies. Attempts by African filmmakers to reclaim and reconstitute African subjectivities on their own historical and cultural terms.
- How do we reclaim the archive even if it was not made with us in mind? Exploring the ways African filmmakers have or are repurposing the archive.
- Reclaiming the archive for transformed pedagogies. The development of courses/or post-graduate degrees in film preservation practices at African universities. Integrating archive studies into the curriculum of film and media programmes as well as disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
20 OCTOBER
14:00 - 14:30 - Coffee & Registration
14:30 - 14:40 - Welcome
14:40 - 15:50 - On the Coming of the Time of the Untimely: Towards the Emergence of Film - Archival Studies in Africa by Aboubakar Sanogo. Chair: Pervaiz Khan
15:50 - 17:00 - The Journey Through The Lens of The Photojournalist Nkululeko Khumalo Recollection of The Past by Vincent Moloi
Chair: Palesa Shongwe
16:00 - 17.45 - Reception
17:45- 20: 00 - Soleil O’ by Med Hondo – Screening. "One of the most compelling films I have ever seen! Med Hondo is no ordinary storyteller" Saer Maty Ba
21 OCTOBER
10:00 -10:20 - Coffee
10:20 - 12:05 - Invisible Cartographies: Inscriptions of archival practice in African multimedia arts by Reece Auguiste,
The Second Limitation: the archive, voyeurism and the problematic “black figure” by Jacob Cloete,
Towards a Partial Biography of Ken Gampu by Litheko Modisane. Chair :Cynthia Kros
12:05 - 12:20 - Break
12:20 -13.30 - Propaganda Turned On Itself by Catherine Meyburgh, The Archive of the Conscious by Khalid Shamis
Chair: Palesa Shongwe
13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 - Remembering Popular Culture by Zandile Tisani; Some thoughts on detemporalisation and value in the moving-image archive by Francois Verster. Chair: Dylan Valley
15:45 - 17:15 - Plenary
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