MY SHOWREEL
After oil
cinematographer & co-Director
As the world grapples with irreversible effects of climate change, a new film—produced and centered on perspectives in Africa—arrives, adding an urgent and essential perspective to the contemporary debate on energy inequality.
Africa Is a Country is proud to present After Oil, a documentary that moves dynamically between three communities in South Africa, Kenya, and the refugee camps of the Sahrawi Republic in Algeria, as they contend with neoliberal policies, uneven infrastructure, and rising temperatures.
MATHONGA ELIZWE
Writer & Director
Examines the hardships faced by Black South African families who are struggling for the return of ancestral land. It highlights issues like forced removals, restricted farming, and the ongoing fight for land restitution, exploring themes of justice, memory, and freedom.
SIKELELA TAPES
CO-director, WRITER & EDITOR
An Experimental Film devoted to re-archiving, remixing and re-sampling our national anthem with critical contemporary value
USINDISO: A HOME IN THE CITY
co-director & editor
The story of the Usindiso building fire of 2023. The COI into the fire found the city responsible for the scale of deaths. The film also raises questions around the misuse of money allocated by the government for the rehousing of victims of the fire. The overarching question the film raises is around negligence and mismanagement of housing regulations and policy and the reneging of the social right to housing.
What do you hear underwater?
cinematographer & editor
“What Do You Hear Underwater? Live” is a live recording of two pieces off Daniel Basckin’s 2020 EP with the same title. ‘Dirge’ and ‘Johannesburg, Finally (In Three Parts) are re-imagined and performed live in the iconic SABC Studios.