我们是Zama Zama The Zama Zama Project

The Zama Zama Project is an experimental documentation of ruinous postindustrial mining life in southern Africa. It is also an act of witnessing. The men and women of The Zama Zama Project are the forgotten, the ghosts in the machine of modern extractivism, the scavengers of its extravagant waste. They are also the authors of the stories told to Rosalind Morris, and form the core of this expressive and probing assemblage.

Based on long term collaborative research, Morris’s project, branching off from her feature length-documentary, We are Zama Zama, comprises a number of short works of various formats in which the sensuous experience of mortally dangerous labor is pursued alongside the political and economic forces that drive people to risk everything in radical speculations on life and value. From mythopoetic encounters with the underground sublime to reflections on the politics and techniques of filmmaking in tunnels and shafts many kilometers below the earth’s surface and vociferous debates on the nature of democracy after wage-labor, The Zama Zama Project is an aesthetically compelling, open-ended address from the necropolitical world.