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" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62f28df6622418bda512a368a7f92794fb962e6a654b781a31f6113bb931d979/beni.jpg" /> Advik Beni is a South African filmmaker and curator based in Los Angeles, California. They received a Bachelors at the University of Cape Town and then graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Film Directing.&nbsp;Through a practice steeped in South African traditions of orality, their work aims to create imagined spaces for marginalised people to express grief and trauma. They are interested in how these non-hierarchical, hybrid models of filmmaking can encourage a collective mutability amongst rhizomatic pathways—that may lead to an actuality of positive impact on communities; whilst preserving a cultural tradition eclipsed by Western modes of storytelling. Advik is focused on how we can witness each other’s existence, and all that entails, in an attempt to facilitate a tangibility of cross-border solidarity that prioritises care. Their work has been supported by San Sebastián International Film Festival, Sundance, FIDMarseille, Prismatic Ground, New Orleans Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Points North Institute, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival amongst others. ︎ &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ︎ &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ︎ &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;︎ view 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. 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.︎︎︎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. 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︎︎︎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. 4min. An&nbsp;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 Documentary FilmFestival︎Camden Internional Film Festival︎Prismatic Ground︎New York Counter Film Festival︎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. 3min. A play with archives, animation and the violence of representations.︎︎︎watch here