Single Channel Installation

Duration: 7:15 minutes

Banned is comprised of fragments of footage appropriated from movies which were banned in South Africa during apartheid. Reflecting on the ideologies of the architects of apartheid, who's psychology was rooted in the idea of the 'other', of control, fear and power, this simple act of censorship reveals how reality was altered to implement control and thereby aid the white apartheid governments policy of segregation. (During the first screening, as part of the Boda Boda Lounge Transcontinental video project, this work was censored in Zimbabwe and almost not screened in Uganda because of perceived homosexual content which is illegal under law in both countries).