Meet the Participants: Cape Town

Over the course of a week in January 2026, eleven South African filmmakers gathered in Cape Town for AFMAC's intensive workshop. Led by The Otolith Group, a London based collective rethinking film through theory and archival practice, and in collaboration with Chimurenga—the Cape Town platform shaping pan-African cultural discourse.

The The Otolith Group is composed of the dynamic duo Kodwo Eshun, a theorist and artist who bends time through Afrofuturism and sonic thinking, and Anjalika Sagar, a filmmaker and curator, who traces memory, history, and image through essay films and research.

Participants included Evan Abrahamse, Cheriese Dilrajh, Malik Ntone Edjabe, Thania Petersen Gray, Zara Julius, Pebo Mokoena, Vuyokazi Ngemntu, Palesa Nomanzi Shongwe, Julia Theron, Adrian Van Wyk, and Zuko Zikala.