Open City Art Film Programme

The Open City Art Film Programme, curated by Joan Legalamitlwa, helps us navigate our way through the ‘new normal’ by presenting films and video works from South Africa and beyond. These works explore innovative storytelling and mythology, heritage, language and symbolism, archiving and memory as well as isolation and introspection.

Featuring works by Lerato Shadi, Simon Gush, Rehema Chacha ge, Tebogo Chologi, Penny Siopis, Jihan El-Tahri, and the AfroCyborg VR Collective – Moratiwa Molema and Shmerah Passchier.

Each programme will be opened up by ‘Construct: Five Women Artists Working Jo’burg Across Non-traditional Mediums,’ a video series by the French Institute of South Africa x FNB Art Jo’burg, featuring Senzeni Marasela, Lunga Ntila, Anastasia Pather, Usha Seejarim, and Vanessa Tembane.