Reframing Africa: Future Archives
| When: | Saturday, 19 October 2019 - Sunday, 20 October 2019 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus East |
| Start time: | 10:00 |
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This two day conference is hosted by the Wits School of Arts, Wits History Workshop, The Market Photo Workshop and The Windybrow Theatre.
Saturday 19 October
10:00 Coffee & Registration
10:30 Opening Remarks / Introduction
11:00 Re-Covering the Archive
Can the Archive Speak? Searching for Interior Life in Absences - Reece Auguiste
auto-ignition (celluloid as dust, as ash in the colonial archive) - Bettina Malcomess
Chair: Dylan Valley
12:00 National Film Archives Members of the NFA panel Chair: Aboubakar Sanogo
12:50 Lunch break
13:45 Exhibition walkabout - Afro Argentina by multi-media artist Gaby Messina
14:10 Future Framings
Film: an archive and vehicle to re-define, re-imagine a violent past - Tanja Sakota Paradise Fallen - Zen Marie
What happens when you think of Cinema beyond representation? Kino Kadre collective and their practice of radical Cinema - Chris Wessels & Eugene Paramoer
Chair: Bettinna Malcomess
15:40 Coffee
16:00 Makers of the Archive of the Future
Transforming Education with Black Diaspora Film and Filmmaking Practice –
Ashley Ellis
Realising Potential in a Pan African Cinema Archive - June Givanni (via Skype)
Archives as Resources: South African film history and education Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk Chair: Reece Auguiste
17:30 Drinks & Snacks
18:15 Introduction by Teemour Mambéty (via Skype) and screening of Touki Bouki (90mins) by Djibril Diop Mambéty "Tears up the screen with fantasies of African modernity never before seen in film or literature" Manthia Diawara
20:15 End
Sunday 20 October
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Tainted Archive
District Six Museum - Chrischene Julius
Aboubakar Sanogo
Kumbula: The Third Limitation - Jacob Cloete
Legends of the Casbah - Damon Heatlie
Chair: Cynthia Kros
13:05 Lunch
14:00 Reimagining the Archive
Stop Bath, Stop River - Abri de Swardt
House of Realness - Sipho Gongxeka
Family Album - BLD Collective
Chair: Candice Jansen
15:30 Plenary – Concluding Remarks - Ali Hlongwane
Chair: Pervaiz Khan
16:30 Drinks & Snacks
17:15 Introduction and screening of Hyenas(1hr 50mins) by Djibril Diop Mambéty - A story of justice, money, and vengeance
19:15 Closing
Venue: Market Photo Workshop 138 Lilian Ngoyi Street, Newtown, Johannesburg.
Space will be limited. If you are interested in attending the workshop please email Cynthia.Kros@wits.ac.za and Pervaiz.Khan@wits.ac.za. There is no registration fee.
Touki Bouki restored 2008 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project & the family of Djibril Diop Mambéty. Restoration funded by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways & Qatar Museum Authorit
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