Background

Critics' Choice VII – The Stuff of Legends

04 February 2021

Cydnii Wilde Harris

Background

Critics' Choice VII – The Stuff of Legends

04 February 2021

The video essay The Stuff of Legends: Myth Making in the Ballads of Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese by Cydnii Wilde Harris is inspired by the installations in the exhibition Vive le cinéma!

Barali ba Motho (Daughters of 'men'), Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2018-2019

Mother, I am Suffocating. This is My Last Film about You, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019

This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Cydnii Wilde Harris (she/her) is a film scholar and video essayist, whose work largely concerns the representations of people of color and marginalized communities. She is particularly concerned with the depictions of Black women and femmes in film and television.

Festival

Critics' Choice VII: On Positionality

For the seventh time, Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker are organising the context programme Critics' Choice during the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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