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SUMMARY:South Of South: Audio-Visual Technology And The San Of Zimbabwe
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: OSWELLED UREKE (UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG)\nThe pap
 er is an ethnographic account based on the author’s experiences teaching
  the San of Sabase Village\, Bulilima\, Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe to 
 make video-films. It explores how the San\, as a marginalized community in
  Zimbabwe\, have interacted with\, negotiated with and appropriated filmma
 king technology. The community at the centre of the study lies on the peri
 phery of Zimbabwe’s social and economic spectrum. Between 2018-19\, they
  encountered (as users)\, some of them for the first time\, video technolo
 gy such as DSLR cameras\, smartphones\, drones and editing equipment\, whe
 n they were trained by a team of Zimbabwean researchers. The study focuses
  on how the San\, regarded as Africa’s First People\, appropriated this 
 filmmaking technology to confront as well as articulate their ‘everyday
 ’. It contributes to the representation of African futures in film by an
 alysing the spatial and temporal aspects of San life\, focusing on the Sab
 ase community’s history\, present circumstances and future aspirations a
 s conveyed through a film that they produced\, titled The San of Twai Twai
 . It not only focuses on the film’s content but also on the circumstance
 s of its production. The article\, therefore contributes to the growing di
 scourse of Afrofuturism\, recently re-enthused by the universally acclaime
 d Black Panther film. From that perspective\, the San’s endeavours and t
 he resultant film represent alternative realities to those that appear in 
 mainstream films about the San and other First People made by ‘dominant
 ’ outside groups. The research was designed as a participatory action re
 search in which data was collected using the participant observation metho
 d as well as focus group discussions with members of the San community\, i
 ncluding the filmmakers. It also incorporates an analysis of the documenta
 ry film created by the San.\n\nhttps://events.saip.org.za/event/171/contri
 butions/2061/
LOCATION:School of Tourism and Hospitality
URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/171/contributions/2061/
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