Myth and myth-making can be traced back to the origin of our species and is the archetypal language through which our spiritual and creative selves…
Posts published by “Gillian Schutte”
Feminist, filmmaker, writer, poet, activist and author, Gillian Schutte has a degree in African politics, an MA in Creative Writing and a Film Director's qualification from the Binger Institute, Netherlands. Winner of the Award of Excellence for her documentary entry to the Society for Visual Anthropology Festival in Washington, 2005, and author of the novel After Just Now -- Schutte fearlessly and creatively tackles issues of race, identity, sexuality and social justice in her multimedia work. She is founding member of Media for Justice co-owner of handHeld Films. and co producer of the online Reality TV series
The Schutte Singiswas'.
November 13 was a cool summer’s night. Students and university workers gathered in the park over the road from the University of Johannesburg to partake…
Sixteen days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children is upon us again this year. As usual it will come and go but…
Western civilisation has, since the dawn of patriarchy, privileged white masculine reasoning and meanings and depreciated the experience, knowledge and voices of women. With the…
Dear white people, There is no kind way to put this so gird your loins and swallow hard. All whites are racist. Some may not…
Brett Bailey, an award-winning South African theatre director and artist, thought it would be a brilliant idea to recreate a painful period of colonial history…
This Women’s Month marks two years since the Marikana massacre. The widows of the workers killed by the South African Police Service in 2012 have…
While every other black leader in a post-1994 South Africa has been constructed as an inferior “other” by the dominant discourse, Nelson Mandela has been…
The mysterious Mr X has been testifying against the striking miners at the Farlam Commission for the past two months in which he claimed the…
This documentary introduces us to a whimsical, restless and sensitive Norwegian youth, 23-year-old Danny. He is a former Olympian equestrian star who dresses in discarded…