Zeitz MOCAA is hosting a series of Pan-African film screenings at The Labia Theatre the last Friday of every month. The second film in this satellite programme is Ancestral Visions of the Future (2025) by Lesotho-born, Germany-based artist Jeremiah Lemohang Mosese.
Mosese has established a distinct cinematic language across works such as This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019), Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You (2019), and Behemoth: Or the Game of God (2016).
In Ancestral Visions of the Future, Mosese works at the threshold of reality and reconstruction, dissolving any stable distinction between the two. Through fragmented narrative structures and a dense, mythic visual register, the film meditates on displacement, belonging, and the fraught desire for return. These concerns are routed through the imaginary of an unnamed city, a psychic and symbolic terrain where the search is less for resolution than for a form of self-recollection.
The film unfolds as a quiet yet insistent inquiry, where autobiography, ethnography, documentary, and myth are not separate genres but coextensive modes of knowing. What emerges is a cinematic work that resists closure, privileging instead a poetics of suspension, one that situates memory as both method and destination.
Location
The Labia Theatre
Directions
Date & Time
Friday, 24 April 2026 | 6 pm – 8 pm
Entry
Non-members pay R30 per person
Zeitz MOCAA Members enter free with presentation of valid membership.
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Thank You for Supporting our Mission!
Your film screening fee is fully reinvested into the programming of the BMW Centre for Art Education, enabling children from under-resourced communities to access and participate in our holiday and community programmes, tours, and workshops.
Image credit: Image still from Ancestral Visions of the Future. Courtesy of the artist, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.
