Global Blackness Summer School ‘23 / For Wholeness. Black Being Well

_Art encounters III “Milisuthando”

Milisuthando Bongela & friends

Fri 1 Dec, 17:00 for 17:30 (starting sharp), Market Photo Workshop, 138 Lilian Ngoyi St, Newtown

Join us a for a ritual gathering and special screening of award-winning film Milisuthando, with an alter installation by Director Milisuthando Bongela.

RSVP is essential - book your (free) ticket below:

Set in past and present South Africa, Milisuthando is a poetic coming-of-age personal essay documentary on love and what it means to become human in the context of race, explored through the memories of Milisuthando – who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.

8 years in the making, Milisuthando is a portrait of me and South Africa growing up together in the aftermath of apartheid. Driven by my narrative voice and a compelling cast of my family, friends, foes and some historical figures, the story braids together the three different worlds of my childhood — The now defunct Republic of Transkei, East London in the 1990s new South Africa and my adult life in Johannesburg. Spanning 30 years in a non-linear manner, the film is a  meditation on difficult questions about power, fear, intimacy and love as it relates to race. Through a roving feminine lens, we find ourselves in happened-upon environments that take the viewer into the interiors of the new South Africa and its relationship with its past.

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