Visionary: Nuotama Bodomo

My friend Stella Viljoen and I co-teach a very cool Honours seminar on Visual Intimacy at Stellenbosch University. The gorgeous exhibition she curated with our dreamy colleague Ernst Van der Wal for The Slow Intimacy Conference in 2022 was an outgrowth of that work.
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As part of the exhibition I chose to interview Ghanaian filmmaker Nuotama Bodomo. I’ve been teaching her Afronauts to my first year students for the past 5 years and feel deeply indebted to her visionary work. Recently my colleague-supervisor Lize and I were chatting about Afrofuturism and I remembered this conversation with Nuotama.
Then her latest film collab with Solange Knowles popped up on my Insta feed yesterday. So I cheekily asked her if I could share our interview and she immediately agreed, because that’s how generous she is.
I love that this new piece is interested in exactly what I’m writing on for the ol’ PhD (the reason I’ve been a bit quiet on this platform)- object oriented ontology. It’s just been one synchronicity after the next of late. And I’m alllll about that.
I want to thank Adriaan de la Rey who filmed and edited the interviews for the exhibition. Through the process we became good friends. While he was briefly visiting from Zambia earlier this year, he jumped in and covered a seminar on documentary for me when I had to dash to my dad’s hospital bed. His work is so beautiful.