DIRECTOR: Nomakhomazi Dyosopu | South Africa | 2014 | 48min
“I’d rather be making art than screaming,” says actress and performing artist, Faniswa Yisa – and living in Cape Town, where after 5pm black people must run for the train before vanishing behind the visible borders of the outlying townships, screaming is necessary. Yet, when she meets the Moving Stories, a dance group in Khayelitsha, Faniswa can scarcely believe that two decades after apartheid, these born frees still feel excluded from the supposedly rainbow city, afraid of abalungu and uncertain how to behave in the public spaces they rightfully own. Faniswa calls up performing artists Masello Motana and Khanyisile Mbongwa to stage a radical, live intervention with the Moving Stories in the CBD, reclaiming their existence with a battle cry in the indifferent urban jungle.
Screenings at Encounters 2015
CT: Sun 7 5.30pm CN V&A PD/Q&A? | Sat 13 8pm Labia PD?
Screens with JAS BOUDE 14min
Panel Discussion
Young Capetonians & Their City – Saturday 13 June 8pm Labia
How far can we say we’ve come, when our city centre remains accessible only to the few? When youth from the townships and Flats feel, are, isolated in the heart of what should be their home? In Ndi Vumeni: Faniswa and Jas Boude (screening in tandem) young women and men from Khayelitsha and Valhalla Park respectively take over the city – dancing and skating – their voices echoing on the stone-cold CBD streets. After the screening of their films, join the The Moving Stories dance group and the skaters of Jas Boude and the filmmakers who’ve captured their stories, in conversation with performance artist, Faniswa Yise, to discuss turning the Mother City into a space everyone call their own.