We Live in Silence: Chapters 1-7
Kudzanai Chiurai dissects Hondo’s film through similitude, staging alternative colonial histories and futures that reject this notion that African migrants are to think, speak, and understand language like their colonizers. By recasting the lead character as a women in the black liberation narrative, the work also repositions the female role in recent histories of struggle and challenges the gender bias inherent to such narratives, which tend to pit a black male as the victim of colonization and, hence, the liberator of the post-colony.
With
- Botshelo Motuba
- Adriaan Fourie
- Alino Katombe
- Andile Biyana
- Bee Diamondhead
- Belo Mofolo
- Brett Rogers
- Bruno Samwa
- Fanyana Mathole
- Huggins Tsondayi
- Jamal Ntedlana
- Jonathan Thomé
- Lethabo Maboi
- Lindiwe Malindi
- Nkosinathi Mavuso
- Mkay
- Mosa Ntsele
- Mpho Masango
- Mpumelelo Mdunge
- Patricia Fokwana
- Teboho Tsotetsi
- Oratile Mashazi
- Zama Mthethwa
- Zandile Tisane
- Zanele Nyingwa
- Zonke Mthethwa
Crew
Written and Directed by | Kudzanai Chiurai |
Cinematography | Adam Bentel |
Editing | Richard Muller |
Music | João Orecchia |
Sound Design | João Orecchia |
Sound | Audio Designs |
Production Design | Dylan Lloyd |
Costumes | Bee Diamondhead |
Make-Up | The Makeup Stand |
Casting | Bee Diamondhead |
Assistant Director | Dylan Lloyd, Lindiwe Matshikiza |
Producers | Candice Allison, Kudzanai Chiurai |
World sales
Goodman Gallery
Produced by
Kudzanai Chiurai Studio
Kudzanai Chiurai
Kudzanai Chiurai was born in 1981 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where he currently lives and works as a multi-media visual artist. His work is focused on tracing the trajectory of political, economic, and social conditions in his homeland from colonialism and independence to the present day. He completed a BA Fine Arts degree from the University of Pretoria (2005) and remained resident in South Africa for several years where he held numerous solo exhibitions. His work has been awarded and shown in major international solo and group exhibitions and screened at film festivals.
Filmography
2011 Iyeza 2012 Creation 2013 Moyo 2016 Sins of the Father 2017 We Live in Silence: Chapters 1-7
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018