Reel to Reality Film Festival A Curated Live Exhibition
We collaborated with The Forge, Braamfontein, as our hosts for the final day of the African diasporic Reel to Reality Festival this year because they aligned best with our ethos and aspiration for the event’s closing day.
The Forge exists to facilitate the genesis, presentation and analysis of radical ideas from Pan-African, socialist, feminist and other progressive perspectives. It is a space for the expression and discussion of ideas, and for the development of solidarities that embrace not only socially authorised intellectuals but also intellectuals in popular organisations.
EGÚNGÚN Directed by Olive Nwosu | Nigeria
In search of healing, a young woman returns home to Nigeria, the country of her birth.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olive Nwosu is a BAFTA Pigott 2020 Scholar, Alex Sichel 2020 Fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, and one of four ‘African Promises 2020’ directors selected by the Institute Français. Olive has written and directed two award-winning short films. Olive’s second film, EGÚNGÚN (MASQUERADE) (2021) was commissioned by the British Council and British Film Institute for their MoreFilms4Freedom programme. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is currently playing in the festival circuit. It has been nominated for Best British Short Film by BIFA. Itis represented by Ouat Media. Olive is in the development of her first feature film with Film4 and Deivós. She has taught screenwriting at Columbia University and Sundance Collab. Her work is informed by the intersectional nature of her life experiences across multiple identities and continents. Her mission is to tell truthful, cinematic, human-centered, stories.
The Group Exhibition
“An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.”
— Thelma Golden
Our group exhibition is an extension of the festival as an exploration of the mediums of storytelling.
This exhibition included artworks and photography from:
Ryan Musonza- The (W)hole collection
Kamogelo Sebopa- Submission 1, New Era, New Error
Nkateko Mondlhlana- Seeking Solace and Portrait
Letlhogonolo Masipa- African girls, Portraits of living Rastafarian, Agape, The boys of soweto
Falida Nkomo- I am Woman
