This research project situates the hardware store as a structure and departure point for theory and practice in the context of Nairobi and Eastern Africa. Through an exploration of materials and tools that emerge due to geopolitical and sociopolitical factors, it interrogates processes of extraction and transformation. The hardware store is ...

Film Programming   Peasant Film Program 2026: TBC   Six Minutes Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam June 2025 Link to program details   The Journey of the Hyena Rijksakademie, Amsterdam April 2024 Link to program details   Artists’ cinema, video and experimental film program Nairobi, July ...

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 ...

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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 ...

            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 ...