Date:
Friday 22 August 2025
Time:
6:00pm (SAST)
Venue:
The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab,
66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock
(enter via Regents St)
The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the opening session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run from now until December 2025.
The newly formed Proof of Life Trio, featuring CHR post-doctoral fellow Reza Khota on guitar, Asher Gamedze on drums and Sean Sanby on bass, will be improvising live to Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 silent film MODERN TIMES.
The trio “attempts to bring together the composed idea that is at the same time endlessly malleable. Taking the phrase as a springboard into the unknown, or perhaps shared collective archive of grooves and affects. The only certainty is that every performance will be unrepeatable. The ensemble is also an offshoot of a collaboration between Khota and Gamedze in Free Music, Free Palestine. The name of the ensemble reflects on the imperative to improvise and think in the moment, as an antithesis to the new forms of techno-fascism, mechanisation and assimilation of the sensorium into the neoliberal order.”
The event is free but RSVP is essential.
There will be an opportunity to make a donation to the performers.
