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mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again.


2026. 74min.

World Premiere at FID Marseille 37

In a post-apartheid Indian township in Durban, South Africa-still fraught with internalized colonial violence, Lishana tends to her dying mother. Attempting to process the experience, she turns to her own art practice and ends up dissolving the boundaries between the personal and the national, the tangible and the mystical, the living and the dead.

Part document, part re-enactment, part imagined, the film navigates the tensions that remain etched in the nation.



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Ilanga Alikho (The Sun is Missing)


2022. 7min.

An experimental landscape film with an element of poetry. The film follows the son of the professional mourner who has now taken up the mantle of his father. He is confused. He does not want to mourn anymore, but it is all he knows how to do. He goes to the local flea market and purchases some chickens for a sacrificial ceremony in the name of his ancestors. Soon enough he is traversing the vast mountainous landscape of Kwa-Zulu Natal as he struggles to find a place where he belongs.


screened at:
︎San Sebastián International Film Festival
︎Edinburgh International Film Festival
︎Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
︎Lago Film Fest
︎New Orleans Film Festival
︎Prismatic Ground
︎Part of Exhibition at Parallel Vienna titled Holes


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Jikele Maweni Ndiyahamba (Let's Go To The Mines)


2022. 4min.

An essay film that parallels a replicated mining town of Johannesburg in California to the mines in South Africa. It serves as an indicator of how those who profiteered of mining in South Africa, the white population, where able to leave and start a whole new town based on where they came from, whereas those who work the mines, the black population, are still faced with excruciating conditions. This is seen via the archive footage of the Marikana mines massacre of 2012 contrasted over the beautiful voice of Miriam Makeba.


screened at:

︎Encounters SA International Documentary Film
Festival
︎Camden Internional Film Festival
︎Prismatic Ground
︎New York Counter Film Festival
︎REDCAT LA,
︎WHAMMY! Analog Media