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South African artist duo - co-creating lo-fi creative research
run by @francois.knoetze & @wilsonamylouise
[email protected] / www.lodef.co.za
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🌤 south African post-carbon imaginaries 🌅 This workshop used speculative storytelling, creature design + D.I.Y device-building to explore how energy, technology + power are experienced + reimagined in South Africa. Participants built their own solar-powered light devices + masks, which included soldering circuit boards + assembling functional systems. This workshop was co-facilitated by Miranda Moss and Urs Gaudens from GaudiLabs (Switzerland) and Lo-Def Film Factory. GaudiLabs uses DIY & open source principles to develop technologies from widely available and recycled parts. Building our own devices helps us to understand the basic principles behind them and shows how energy can be shared and stored at a small scale. This workshop created a space of imagination to question who controls energy in our country, and what a more just, collective + non-extractive system might look like. with thanks to @lalelaproject + @weavetek for hosting this workshop 🧡 by @lodeffilms
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last year @worm Rotterdam we opened a portal into deep time with @ambervineyard & @roxettecapriles ! this month they are in cape town building, tunnelling, shaping space - follow @backspace_0.3 for the workshop + ball programme this collaboration was made possible by @stimuleringsfonds & Worm artistic director @charlien_contemporaryglory ! by @lodeffilms
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scenes from a workshop in collaboration with the incredible dancers at @garagedanceensemble in South Africa's oldest mining town & historic centre of copper extraction, O'kiep, Nothern Cape. co-facilitated by @francois.knoetze & @limb_its v.o @iman_isaacs this project was developed in partnership with @worm.rotterdam with support from @stimuleringsfonds by @lodeffilms
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An extract from our most recent project Unmaking the Model. Untangling the wiring of algorithmic models through South Africa's copper histories. this project was made possible by @stimuleringsfonds in partnership with @worm.rotterdam (@charlien_contemporaryglory) & a host of exceptional collaborators. This video features the voices of Martinus Fredericks and @iman_isaacs. With thanks to @limb_its, fabricator, performer, facilitator. internship support from @loki_depo costumes & performance @francois.knoetze by @lodeffilms
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Artist-Archive Collaboration The Futures_Past: Amplifying Memory with Immersive Technologies is a collaborative initiative organized by the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) in partnership with Electric South and local cultural institutions, archives, and international collaborators. National Film, Video, and Sound Archives - Pretoria, South Africa The Moolman Opnames collection comprises fourteen reels of 35mm film shot between 1960 and 1966. The footage documents everyday life and state activity during apartheid. The creative team will transform these archives into experimental 360°installations inviting audiences to interrogate what the images reveal and what they leave out. Artist team: Amy Louise Wilson; Francois Knoetze; Kaelo Molefe; Nomandla Vilakazi by @lodeffilms
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We are pleased to announce the official selection of 'The Rock Speaks' to @fifdh.geneve The Rock Speaks will be screened as part of the Voices that Matter shorts programme at this year's edition of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights held next month in Geneva. With thanks to programmer Jasmin Basic & producers @artefactofilmico ✨️✨️✨️ taken in Geneva, Switzerland by @lodeffilms
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Birbeck Institute of the Moving Image , London presents a screening and panel discussion of a programme of films created using AI models. Curated by Bartek Dziadosz @artefactofilmico 13 February 18.30 - 21.00 by @lodeffilms
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8 months ago
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flash e-waste assemblages made during workshops with the Emerging Artists Programme @dafmoc 👾👾 viewing devices oriented toward uncertain futures 👽👽 traces of the Data Thief from The Last Angel of History surface through these material fragments ||| 📷Images by Sara Kamel courtesy of @dafmoc by @lodeffilms
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👾 week in review at DiriyahArt Futures @dafmoc Our week-long course explored Re-membering, not as nostalgia or return, but as an act of repair and reconnection. If colonialism and extractive capitalism have dismembered & dislocated people from land and memory, then re-membering asks: how do we piece things back together? Working with lo-fi, collaborative methodologies, we experimented across three stages: Re-mapping — diagramming fractured histories Re-staging/Re-enacting — performance and green screen as embodied memory Re-mixing — archives, collage, and found footage as reparative practice We thought alongside Isabella Hammad, Walter Benjamin, Hito Steyerl & others. We studied the practices of Nolan Dennis, Jean Katambayi & Chimurenga. We watched the work of Harun Farocki, Otolith Group, Atlas Group, Forensic Architecture, John Akomfrah & more .... The atists created stop-motion films, speculative maps, and recycled material constructions tracing personal-collective memories while developing their research practices. Thank you to all the artists who brought such depth, curiosity, and play into this week’s process. With thanks to @dr_tegan Images + thanks are due to @soulfiresa by @lodeffilms
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WHAT IF A ROCK COULD SPEAK? 🗣️💎 India Doc Fest invites you to experience THE ROCK SPEAKS by Francois Knoetze & Amy Louise Wilson - a groundbreaking hybrid documentary that will fundamentally shift how you see technology and its true cost. Journey with a single cobalt rock from the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, across continents, as it channels a powerful chorus of voices. This film fearlessly uses generative AI to peel back the layers of territories usually unseen, revealing the human and environmental impact behind our digital world. It’s a visually stunning, relentlessly warping dive into the enmeshment of labor, resources, and the ceaseless tide of data that powers our technological future. 📍 Jawahar Bhawan 🗓️ 28th October ⏰ 10:30 am onwards Secure your tickets for a film that truly challenges perception. Scan the QR code or find the link in bio! Free entry! #TheRockSpeaksDoc #IndiaDocFest2025 #ArtificialIntelligence #Documentary #SocialImpact #GlobalNarratives #FilmFestival #FutureIsNow #DRCongo #DeepDive #EthicalTech by @lodeffilms
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📖 Unmaking the Model By Lo-Def Film Factory (Cape Town) x WORM (Rotterdam) How have maps, surveys, climate models, and now AI always served extraction? As one-week residency concludes, we present to you Zine research. Unmaking the Model zine traces the entangled histories of colonial cartographies, mining data, and algorithmic forecasts, revealing how models flatten land, labor, and life into profit. Through archival remixing, workshops, and performance, the project highlights community struggles in Namaqualand, reimagines counter-models like 34,000-year-old termite mounds, and insists on futures beyond extractivism. This cross-continental collaboration asks: what happens when we ‘unmake’ dominant models and imagine other ways of knowing, measuring, and surviving together? 26 Sept 20:30 FESTIVE CLOSURE OF ONE WEEK RESIDENCY Party with costume-making & music (free) More info worm.org by @lodeffilms
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