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The voice of a British man narrates a film produced in the 1950’s describing the moment when Nairobi transitions from a small town into a city. This was made by the Colonial Film Unit (CFU); a mobile cinema outfit established by the British colonial government. Its task was to produce instructional or educational films that were also ...

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January 13, 2025

Zoo studies

I'd like to preface by saying that this work is not about animals. Even though you will see a lot of animals. The Amsterdam Zoo (ARTIS) becomes a site of intervention in this work where visuality is reframed in an emancipatory way through the potency of images. It engages drawing, printmaking and cinema as forms to think with as well as ...

December 23, 2024

Model II: construction

        Link: https://vimeo.com/1051940691/3188580de4?share=copy Former WIELS resident Jackie Karuti brings her latest work to AFFILIATE, a space in the city centre where alumni of the WIELS Residency Programme present their projects. Location: AFFILIATE, rue du Jardin des Olives 3 Olivetenhof, ...

This work was presented at the Rijksakademie open studios. 30 May - 2 June 2024. It was preceded by the film program; The Journey of the Hyena convened at the Rijksakademie in April, 2024.   The apparatus establishing & dismantling itself I Link: https://vimeo.com/965524351/35736d8c2d?share=copy Looking at animals is used ...

May 04, 2023

BODY MACHINE LOCATION

  This solo exhibition is part of an ongoing moving image project that departs from Fukeiron; the concept of landscape theory asserting that the visible landscape around us is an expression of dominant political power. It was developed by early Japanese filmmakers where the landscape was cast as evidence of real or imagined crimes and ...