A New Way of Being is a short experimental film that layers a collection of images, words, movements, sounds and echoes of the violent feelings rippling through vulnerable bodies. 

This film is a tremor piece of a feeling of a generation haunted by not only its past but also stirred by its present. The featured poem was written out of frustration, anger, anxiety, fear, bravery, joy and determination to escape systemic violence as a vulnerable person. Female. ‘Foreigner’. Child. Queer. Black. Coloured. Anything other than dominant and oppressive, therefore oppressed, silenced and killed. 

We imagine and envision the ghosts of past infrastructures merged into spaces of the virtual planetary suggestions. A New Way of Being – where the vulnerable – can gather in safety, song and surrender at the pain of being alive {or dead} but the beauty of growing within the storm with the sun always holding strong towards our skin.

POEM WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY VUYOLWETHU REOAGILE

BEAT BY DA REAL T.I.G

SOUND ARCHITECTURE BY ILZE MARI WESSELS