Sarojini Lewis x Ravech (SR): documentary film meets metal music in Disclosing Diaries

This night promises to be really exciting! Visual artist Sarojini Lewis presents her latest interactive work, one heralding a new approach towards post-colonial documentary film making. Sarojini will be working with the young metal band Ravech (SR) who make a new, political form of metal. Ravech play a live set of new songs crafted for the interdisciplinary framework Lewis has created, and will "bodily engage" with this space and a selected sound recordings (see below). They will be joined by a live VJ who creates a video collage from various historical fragments; we all know that history is never just a linear story and we want to bring you a more multi-layered experience.
The work showcases visual connections and historical narrations about the plantation, Berg en Dal. We also explore the Sutterlin script and extracts from missionary diaries (from 1862), describing the personal relationships and complaints of the formerly enslaved, after emancipation.
The visual aspects of the documentary contain diverse elements of Sarojini Lewis’s work, such as the performance and embodiment of the rituals and stories which she made in collaboration with the bandmembers of Ravech.
Two of the band members are related to Berg en Dal by their name – Stutgard – their genealogy is described in the dairies since 1824. Their uncle Stutgard, together with Kaatje, Prof Lamur and Cynthia Macleod – as well as several personas related to the plantation – retell their observations.
This is Ravech’s first time as a band in Europe! Welcome, Chaver Stutgard, Reindell Stutgard, Adam Wakidin and Raydle Santjes!
Cineville valid at the door!