Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina

How can we remember events that we have not experienced but are somehow intertwined in our DNA? How can we go back to actual places of memory and engage with the act of remembering? How can we make the invisible memory that is locked in space and place visible? Hence the tool, the camera. How can we use a still or moving image to translate our experiences, emotions and interactions with the past?

Uncovering Memory is about the role of film in memory and remembering, and how to uncover memories. It takes you on a journey of interactions with historical, political, cultural and personal memory.

Tanja Sakota is an artistic researcher, writer, filmmaker and Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Film and Television Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 

Terry Kurgan is an artist and a writer based in Johannesburg. Her book, Everyone is Present, was shortlisted for the Photo Arles Book Prize (in France, 2019), selected as a Finalist for the  National Jewish Book Awards (New York, 2019) and won South Africa’s premier non-fiction literary prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award (2019).

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