Creating in Circles
Workshop 1 September–1 November 2017
Monochrome event photograph from the ‘Creating in Circles’ exchange on A4’s ground floor. At the front, Eugene Paramoer leans over a laptop. At the back, a video is projected onto the wall.
Event: Creating in Circles, September 1, 2017–November 1, 2017.
Title Creating in Circles Dates 1 September–1 November 2017 Location Ground Floor Tagline Mutterings about guns, cameras, guerrilla cinema groups, rocks and rebellion: the role of militant cinema circles in rehearsing anti-colonial rebellion is explored in three screenings with Eugene Paramoer. Credits

Facilitator:
Eugene Paramoer

Coordinator:
francis burger

Our time is one of hypothesis rather than of thesis, a time of works in progress – unfinished, unordered, violent works made with the camera in one hand and a rock in the other...

– Solanas and Getino (1969), Grupo Cine Liberación

Facilitated by 'kino artist, cultural activist and story process facilitator' Eugene Paramoer, Creating in Circles explores radical cinema as synonymous with groups, movements or collectives, and looks at the role of militant cinema circles in rehearsing anti-colonial rebellion.

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Programme:

Thursday, 28 September, 18:30
Dziga Vertov (council of 3)
Man with a Movie Camera, 1929 (Soviet Union)
80 min

Thursday, 12 October, 18:30
Jorge Sanjinés, grupo Ukamau
Yawar Mallku, 1969 (Bolivia)
70 min

Thursday, 9 November, 18:30
Promedios film group, Autonomous municipality of Francisco Gómez
The Resistance, 2001 (Chiapas, Mexico)
30 min

Monochrome event photograph from the ‘Creating in Circles’ exchange on A4’s ground floor. At the front, the facilitator Eugene Paramoer seated along with participants in a circular formation. At the back, Nolan Oswald Dennis’ mixed media drawings ‘abangenamalihlaba IV-VI’ and Moshekwa Langa’s mixed media work ‘Ramothibedi’ are mounted on the wall, with a drawing on the wall between them.
Event: Creating in Circles, September 1, 2017–November 1, 2017.
Monochrome event photograph from the ‘Creating in Circles’ exchange on A4’s ground floor. A participant wearing an archival glove holds a flyer with an illustration that reads ‘Concert Against Detention, Luxurama’.
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