The Lo-Def Film Factory & Russel Hlongwane: Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness

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This Thursday (6 February 2025), The Lo-Def Film Factory will be screening Core Dump, Russel Hlongwane will be screening Ifu Elimnyama, The Dark Cloud: a short film, and together they’ll be screening their collaborative film Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness. The film will be accompanied by excerpts from other films and media.

The screening is free and open to the public, bookings via Quicket are required as seating capacity is limited to 48 people. Tickets will be available from 9am, Tuesday 04 February

The Lo-Def Film Factory (@) was created by Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson. Their work involves archival research, dramaturgy, and visual strategies associated with video art, collage, sculptural installation and new media, to create space for experimental storytelling. They are particularly focused on engaging with young people to make participatory research-creation projects.

Russel Hlongwane (@) is a cultural producer based in Durban, South Africa. His work is

located at the intersection of Heritage/ Modernity and Culture/ Tradition as they apply to

black life. His said practice in includes artistic research, film, creative producing, design

theory, curatorship, writing and performance – often against the backdrop of installation

form.

Afterimage is a film screening programme, funded by the National Arts Council and run by Mitchell Gilbert Messina (@classicmitch) and Ben Albertyn (@benalbertyn). Each screening has an artist share a work of theirs alongside some of the short films and reference material that informed it. The programme aims to spotlight artists working with film and video, demystify their making, and reveal the traits they share with works that came before.

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