https://advikbeni.com advik beni Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:34:25 +0000 https://advikbeni.com en https://advikbeni.com/home Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:59:26 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/home advik beni artist. filmmaker. ︎︎︎ https://advikbeni.com/marquee Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:08:14 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/marquee MOTHER, YOU HAVE NOT DIED YET. BUT YOU WILL. AND WHEN YOU DO, YOU WILL FINALLY BE ALIVE AGAIN [UPCOMING] ︎ILANGA ALIKHO (THE SUN IS MISSING) [2022] ︎JIKELE MAWENI NDIYAHAMBA (LET’S GO TO THE MINES) [2022] ︎LISTENING TO IMAGES [2022] ︎SINCERELY, ETHEL BROWN HARVEY [2022] ︎THIS IS NOT THE FILM I WANTED TO MAKE [2021] ︎NOMVULA [2019] https://advikbeni.com/bio Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:59:27 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/bio <img width="1867" height="1581" width_o="1867" height_o="1581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62f28df6622418bda512a368a7f92794fb962e6a654b781a31f6113bb931d979/beni.jpg" data-mid="166900530" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62f28df6622418bda512a368a7f92794fb962e6a654b781a31f6113bb931d979/beni.jpg" /> Advik Beni is a South African born artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. He received his Bachelors at the University of Cape Town and then graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Film Directing. Through the use of non-hierarchical, hybrid modes of filmmaking, he collectively creates imagined spaces for peoples on the fringes to express grief and trauma. His work aims to preserve a cultural tradition eclipsed by Western modes of storytelling.He is the founder of the sadarts foundation, a non-profit which aims—through the arts—to increase accessibility and raise awareness for mental health issues within marginalised South African communities. His work has shown at San Sebastián International Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Encounters Film Festival, Joburg Fringe Art, Parallel Vienna, Untitled Art Miami, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival amongst others. He also received the Sundance Ignite Fellowship in 2022 and is a finalist for The One Club for Creativity's COLORFUL 2023 . ︎ &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ︎ &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ︎ &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;︎ view his resume here https://advikbeni.com/mother-you-have-not-died-yet Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:14:07 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/mother-you-have-not-died-yet mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again. [upcoming feature film] AMIDST a small Indian community in post-Apartheid South Africa—still fraught with violence—Lishana takes care of her dying elderly mother. She turns to photography to grapple with her grief and the lingering tensions of her town. In capturing images and ruminating on the line between life and death, she begins oscillating between the tangible world and the mystical. ︎︎︎contact for more info https://advikbeni.com/line-break Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:32:53 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/line-break ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ https://advikbeni.com/ilanga-alikho Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:56:46 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/ilanga-alikho Ilanga Alikho (The Sun is Missing) 2022 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&nbsp; ︎Edinburgh International Film Festival&nbsp; ︎Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg ︎Lago Film Fest ︎Part of Exhibition at Parallel Vienna titled Holes ︎︎︎contact for more info https://advikbeni.com/line-break-02 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:33:43 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/line-break-02 ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ https://advikbeni.com/jikele-maweni-ndiyahamba Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:10:09 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/jikele-maweni-ndiyahamba Jikele Maweni Ndiyahamba (Let's Go To The Mines)2022 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, were 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 Doc Film Festival&nbsp; ︎REDCAT LA, ︎WHAMMY! Analog Media ︎︎︎watch here https://advikbeni.com/line-break-03 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:34:25 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/line-break-03 ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ https://advikbeni.com/listening-to-images Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:16:48 +0000 advik beni https://advikbeni.com/listening-to-images Listening to Images&nbsp;2022 A play with archives, animation and the violence of representations. ︎︎︎watch here