YOUR HISTORY WITH ME, the films of Penny Siopis
493pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Durham, 2024
Artist-filmmaker Penny Siopis uses found footage to create short video essays that function as densely encrypted accounts of historical time and memory that touch on the cryptic and visceral elements of gender and power.
Contributions include:
"It Will Always Be You" by William Kentridge
"The Turning Liquid of the Real" by Achille Mbembe
"The Tapeworm Writes Back!" by Mark Gevisser
"Anybody Can" by Hedley Twidle
"Angry Witnessing, Monstrous Play" by Pumla Dineo Gqola
"Kinetic Worlds" by Sinazo Chiya
"Contagion" by Sarah Nuttall.
Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is editor of