Book discussion of Your History With Me: The Films of Penny Siopis edited by Sarah Nuttal

WiSER and Duke University Press invite you to a book discussion of Your History With Me: The Films of Penny Siopis edited by Sarah Nuttall

With Sarah Nuttall, Penny Siopis, William Kentridge, Sinazo Chiya  

WISER Seminar Room

Monday 28^th October

1pm

Lunch and drinks will be served at 12:45

The retail price of this book is R1000. From 12:45 to 2:45pm ONLY on Monday 28^thOctober, it will be for sale at R300, at WISER. Cash sales only.

Penny Siopis is internationally acclaimed for a body of work which, for several decades, focused on paintings and installations. This book is the first comprehensive study of her short films, made between 1997 and 2023, which have put her at the front rank of contemporary artists-filmmakers. Siopis uses found footage to create short video essays that function as densely encrypted accounts of historical time and memory. In them, she articulates a mode of filmmaking highly responsive to histories of violence, displacement and migration and drives reaches for filmic forms as modes of experimentation and intervention.  The writers curators, artists and filmmakers in this volume explore Siopis’s films in relation to histories of Greeks in South Africa, trauma and cultural memory, third cinema, and feminist film form.

“No one but Sarah Nuttall could have put together such a stellar collection to make the unanswerable case for filmmaker Penny Siopis as an artist of unique aesthetic and social significance” – Jacqueline Rose, author of numerous books, most recently of The Plague: Living Death In Our Times

“Book Discussions at WiSER are convened and co-ordinated by Sarah Nuttall and Najibha Deshmukh”.