A River's Tale - A Short Documentary

This short film is dedicated to the resilient spirit of Basotho, which often is evident throughout their trying situations and environments of the mountain kingdom. Accompanied by the sonorous music of Mpho Molikeng andJonathan Grossley, the film is a musical tribute as well as homage to a life that many never witness throughout their lives.

Untitled - A Video Poem

Untitled

Also dubbed: A Series Of Storms In A Coffee Mug, these video poems are an exploration of the plasticity of perception in relation to that which is perceived. Though substantially reliant on the perceiver's imagineering, these images are morphing replications that seem trans-mutant in non-deterministic patterns. Furthermore, the use of a smartphone camera weaves yet another web of suspension upon which our image-forming faculties are challenged by a framed perceptual space, though presented in a cluster of multiplicities. This becomes a metaphor for an uncanny disregard of similitude that bids the images to their original copy, while allowing for a divergence of vantage points from which a viewer can interpret these moving artworks.

Not to say these artworks alter the human perceptual apparatus in that they change vision of each viewer, but they merely bring to question whether art is capable of restructuring human capacity of recognizing objects in their fundamental state. And considering our basic and literal perception of objects as they fundamentally are - can art be capable of remodeling our perception towards perceptual fields for which we possess no point of reference?

After The Fire - Images By Paul Zisiwe

Secrets Lessons About Insects - A Khahliso Matela Film

Sitting around a fire on a winter’s night, a father and his children hold a jovial discussion about what insects can teach humans about ‘the art of budgeting.” Using a number of well-known insects found in the pristine environment of the mountain kingdom, Mohau Matela bestows pearls of wisdom to his descendants, while encapsulating the tradition of transmitting knowledge for which Basotho are famed and envied.

Filmed in single take, while Matokelo was still among the living, this film is cut as both eulogy and celebration of times fired by the warmth of familial love, which is characteristic of many Basotho households.

The robustness of thought that went to devising parables recounted in the film is a mystery to the filmmaker, but these lessons will always remain examples of what communal intellectual property comprises.

And told through flames and beauty of nightly silence, it could well be that a myriad of families share such jewels before slumbering into dreams, preparing a generation of wiser future highlanders geared for preservation of all their gains.

A Kokosi Park Story - A Freddy Zisiwe Film

What will happen to one man's dream of establishing a recreational park in his township? Will the negative motives of his peers distract him, or will there be some help that aims to see this collectively beneficial project come to fruition? This story is a beginning of a venture, which Freddy Zisiwe and Abraham Marite wish to see come to life.

Kokosi - An Arrested Development

An Arrested development

The issue of home settlements has remained a contentious one among many South African township residents, and with the advent of infrastructure development projects being instituted under government mandates, there seems to be a rise in corruption within the sector, and more devastatingly within community based housing projects.

Kokosi is one of such townships, now embroiled in various disputes with contractors and their municipal cohorts, while the disgruntled community that has been overlooked by house allocation processes continues to suffer.

This story is mere glimpse into what is a growing pandemic, which within these conducive virulent environmental conditions brought in by Covid-19, has mutated into what will soon become societal bug of an unprecedented scale, following in the footsteps of various global protestations against the POWERFUL.

A New Way Of Being - A Vuyolethu Seripe Poem