Futures_Past Brings Five Immersive Works to Fak'ugesi

To All Who Live In It is a 360-degree video installation built from the Moolman Opnames, 14 reels of 35mm film shot between 1960 and 1966 and held by the National Film, Video and Sound Archives in Pretoria. The reels record everyday life and state activity under apartheid; the artist team of Amy Louise Wilson, Francois Knoetze, Kaelo Molefe and Nomandla Vilakazi recuts them into a surround image that asks what the footage reveals and what it leaves out.

The installation anchors the Futures_Past booth at Fak'ugesi, the African digital innovation festival now in its 13th edition at Johannesburg's Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, themed "African Imaginaries" this year. The booth, presented by the French Institute of South Africa with Electric South and announced with a behind-the-scenes reel, runs Oct. 14 to 17. Futures_Past itself is a two-year program pairing artist teams with six archives across South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi.

Alongside it: Kings of Lesotho: The Succession Story, a VR journey through Basotho royal history from King Moshoeshoe I to King Letsie III, made by the Royal Archives in Matsieng with MP Multimedia, and also showing free at the Alliance Française de Maseru through Dec. 4; a poster-making station from Acts of Care; an installation from We Are What Remains; and a work-in-progress activation from Lucid Dreams of Sweet Water.