Paper short abstract:

"Research / Souvenir (Dialogues)", combines found 8mm and Super 8mm footage from colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and audio from ethnographic research gathered among Zimbabwean long-term migrant women residing in Cape Town, South Africa.

Paper long abstract:

https://vimeo.com/229443709

password: dialogues

"Research / Souvenir (Dialogues)", combines found 8mm and Super 8mm footage from colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and audio from ethnographic research gathered among Zimbabwean long-term migrant women residing in Cape Town, South Africa. Part 1,"Research", reveals the personal thoughts and challenges faced by researcher/filmmaker Roger Horn in the field. Part 2, "Souvenir (Dialogues)", offers the research participants an opportunity to question Horn about his choice of souvenirs from the field, providing the political and economic backdrop to the ongoing exodus of Zimbabweans and leads up to the removal of long standing President Robert Mugabe on November 21, 2017.

Functioning as an additional layer of consideration, the found home movies follow an unknown South African woman as she travels from Cape Town to Zimbabwe, a route mimicked by Horn. This form of visual representation seeks to call attention to the ongoing ethical issues and privileges researchers / filmmakers encounter within the context of the post-colonial landscape of Southern Africa.

Screenings:

22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival

38th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival

MICE - Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico Museo do Pobo Galego

Sjón International Anthropological Festival

International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec

SIEF2019 14th Congress (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore)

Ethnografilm

Kleinkaap Short Film Festival (KSFF)

SOTAMBE Documentary Film and Arts Festival

ULTRAcinema cine experimental y de found footage

Prospe(c)tiva/B.r.i.o.

World Film Festival

FOTOGENIA, FILM POETRY & DIVERGENT NARRATIVES FESTIVAL. VOL. 1