by Mpumelelo Mcata
Mpumelelo Mcata’s debut documentary feature is an inventive and complex film looking at the life and work of Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiuarai. The film uses the artist’s 2011 exhibition ‘State of the Nation’ as a focal point, using it to examine his creative process, his political ideology, his experience working within the Johannesburg art scene and his background as an artist. Incorporating hybrid filmmaking elements, including dramatized scenes, the film also contains moments where the work of the filmmaker and the artist seem to diverge. It’s a bold and distinctive documentary and a fascinating insight into Chiurai and his work.
Music composition and sound design by João Orecchia.
- flat pink roses
- dinokana – venice biennale
- i seek you in my dreams
- where the wind calls my name
- under the hanging tree
- mafolofolo – documenta 15
- one take grace
- film festival film
- i want to see for myself
- stillborn
- desert
- the man jesus
- imbizo ka mafavuke
- inxeba (the wound)
- urban mermaid
- black president
- the silent form
- creation – moyo – iyeza
- uncles & angels
- security
- television
