Teboho Edkins
South Africa
2016 | 0:11:00

High in the mountains of Lesotho, Mosaku is anxiously awaiting the return of his older brother from an initiation ceremony. The initiates spend 5 months in a remote secrete location. What rituals are performed is known only to those who have taken part. But when the boys return, they are grown men. Initiation is a video work in which I take a scene of an existing film of mine, re-work it with unused footage and shift perspective to that of the younger brother, whereby it becomes an autonomous work. My voice and an old photograph of me as a white child growing up in Lesotho intervene as disturbing elements, simultaneously creating intimacy and distance. Contradictions, notions of identity and fantasy come to the surface.

Ernesto Cabellos Damian
Peru
2015 | 1:27:00

At the height of the Peruvian gold rush, Nelida, an Andean woman able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the body of water she considers her mother. A gold deposit valued at billions of dollars lies just beneath Nelida’s lakes and leads farmers and Latin America’s biggest gold producer into conflict.