Nduka Mntambo

Nduka Mntambo became Head of the Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy in 2021. Prior to joining the Academy, he led the Film and Television program at the Wits School of Arts. 

As an artist and academic, Nduka’s research focuses on the intersection of artistic practice and urban life in the global south. He has also been involved as a jury member in various film festivals, including the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam, the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival, and the inaugural Amsterdam Student Film Festival (ASFF) in 2023, and is an advisory board member of Sonic Acts Organization, Amsterdam. He has received the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Mobility Grant and the NIHSS Award for Best Visual Art. 

In addition to his academic pursuits, Nduka has collaborated on film productions and video installations that explore diverse themes and locations. His works have been showcased at forums such as the Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Festival and Conference, the UN-Habit: World Urban Forum, the Videoex Internationales Experimental Film and Video Festival in Zurich, the Michaelis Galleries in Cape Town, and The Point of Order Project Space in Johannesburg. He contributed a chapter to Events and Society: Bridging Theory and Practice (2025), edited By Mike Duignan.

You can read more about Nduka’s general practice here and his research projects Asymmetries: Iterations in/through Artistic Research here and Performing Dissent: Resonances of Resistance (working title) here.