DOCUMENTARY SCREENING - GOLDBLATT

Many witnesses were first exposed to the iniquities of apartheid through the lens of South Africa’s foremost photographer, David Goldblatt. The film chronicles Goldblatt's efforts to capture the single picture which still eluded him; to see the land, in his words, “through the eyes of a virgin.” Drawing on Goldblatt’s rich catalogue, the film is a meditation on identity, place, and longing, set within the complex, ever-shifting landscape of South Africa.

The documentary features interviews from Nadine Gordimer and William Kentridge, with insights from Omar Badsha, Neil Dundas, Lily Goldblatt, Nadine Gordimer, Mark Haworth-Booth, Ashraf Jamal, William Kentridge, Mokhete Khoda, Queen Monyeki, Zanele Muholi, Marlene van Niekerk, Sean O’Toole, Ivor Powell, Jo Ractliffe, Ibrahim Salie and Paul Weinberg.

Goldblatt was 86 years of age at the time of making the documentary and passed on soon after it was completed, on the 25 June 2018. Goldblatt continued his unrelenting, prolific protest-in-pictures against inequality and social injustice in South Africa until the end.