InFlux: Mediatrips from the African World Vol. 3

The violence and the pleasures, the contradictions, fears and desires of a planet shaped by the postcolonial condition, the present-future of our common humanity in a global 21st century system shot through with radical change: these are the foci of IN/FLUX, addressed from Africa and her diasporas by creators who reject easy approaches or answers.

The works included in the third volume explore issues of body politics. How, they ask, does the body function, willingly and not, as a site of political engagement? To what kinds of experimentation does it lend itself and to what ends? In the face of radically unequal power relationships characteristic of the late capitalist era in which we live, what is its margin of maneuver? To what manner of autonomy and agency can it aspire? As with the previous two volumes, the focus here is primarily on urban spaces and cultures.

List of films:

We Are the World * GODDY LEYE (Cameroon)

Foucault's Children: An Examination * ZEN MARIE & JONATHAN CANE (South Africa)

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose * HEDDY MAALEM & BENOIT DERVAUX (Algeria/Belgium)

Journal D'un Homme Important * ALA EDDINE SLIM (Tunisia)

Hold de Door * EZRA WUBE (Ethiopia/USA)

Itchy City * KGAFELA OA MAGOGODI & JYOTI MISTRY (South Africa)

I Like It When it Goes Fast/Control * NAADIRA PATEL (South Africa)

Chandelier * STEVEN COHEN (South Africa) 

IN/FLUX 3: MEDIATRIPS FROM THE AFRICAN WORLD from Lowave on Vimeo.