In this episode, three Ugandan artists and filmmakers, Liz Kobusinge, Freddie and SCARLETMOTIFF share their experiences about creating moving image works, including insights from two artists who were featured in the exhibition.

Liz Kobusinge’s work has been featured in the Njabala Foundation's annual exhibition at the Makerere University Art Gallery. She participated in KLA ART 2021 in Kampala and was also an artist-in-residence at 32 Degrees East. Additionally, she exhibited with the Salooni Collective in Burkina Faso. Her collaboration with Darlyne Komukama, titled “In the Midst,” was developed during a residency at LAPA in Brixton, South Africa.

Freddie is a law student and filmmaker who focuses on telling stories about everyday people who often go unseen on screen. They believe in the power of film to challenge the status quo and are passionate about themes of queer joy, and communities that exist outside societal norms. Freddie’s directorial debut is a short film titled "A Normal Boy.

SCARLETMOTIFF is an audio-visual artist operating along the threads connecting creative technology, audio production, graphic design, and the materiality of light. Since July 2020, this iterative approach has birthed over 1400 unique web-native video artworks as part of his daily audio-visual project titled GENERATIVE DREAMS. His work has been exhibited at the Noor Riyadh Light Art Festival in Riyadh, Afri Art Gallery & Afropocene StudioLab in Kampala and the BuzzFest Tech Art Festival in Austin Texas. As part of the ‘In transit under the sky’ exhibition, he made a piece of work titled ‘The Night Terminal’.

Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria

This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.

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