"why a school? notes from an unrealised film" (2023)
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After the student uprisings of 1976, a generation of South African teenagers went into exile to join the armed struggle against Apartheid. The Liberation Movement (ANC), supported by its allies, built a school to educate these young students. Many of them went on to study in universities across the Eastern Bloc. One of these students, the artist's uncle Nigel Dennis, returned from FAMU, a film school in Prague, and wrote a script for a film about this revolutionary school. This project presents his script and research notes, photographs, and other documents from his personal archive alongside an interview about his film which was never realised.
/ Photo credit: Kristīne Madjare / Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art