Mmakgosi Kgabi

A performance in the footsteps of black activists in early 20th century Berlin.

On film sets in Berlin and Seoul, rehearsals repeat as scenes are performed, interrupted, and restarted. Amid repetition, interruption, failure, and waiting, questions of migration, belonging, and identity remain deferred.

When The Great Erasure interrupts her reading of Dove’s story, The Black Girl goes in search of the author. After the Feminist Bookseller and Africanist Professor do not help her, she turns to The Revisionists, in whose cyberarchive she is able to locate Dove and the two spend an afternoon together. Told in the style of a ciné-roman, the film is an homage to Shaw and Dove’s “Adventure” novellas.