Event

Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer

As part of the 15th Cambridge African Film Festival, the Centre of Governance and Human Rights is sponsoring the screening of “Things of the Aimless Wanderer”, a provoking film that weaves together a series of encounters between an African woman and a variety of male figures – from a 19th-century explorer to a contemporary Western journalist to a Rwandan working for a shadowy surveillance agency. As each encounter leads to a disappearance, Ruhorahoza offers a scathing, if at times cryptic, indictment of continuing objectification and misapprehensions between “locals” and “Westerners”. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director, Kivu Ruhorahoza, as well as Dr Piotr Cieplak (expert on Rwandan film and photography) and Dr Andrea Grant (Centre of African Studies and the Centre of Governance & Human Rights, Cambridge).