Nduka Mntambo

Nduka Mntambo is an image-maker working/playing in the interstices of urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking, and pedagogy. He holds a PhD in Film, and he is currently the Head of the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy. He is the former head of the Film and Television Program at the Wits School of Arts (WSOA). In May 2018, he presented a large-scale exhibition titled Asymmetries at The Point of Order Project Space in Johannesburg and at Michaelis Galleries in Cape Town.

The Asymmetries installation was awarded the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Awards for Best Visual Arts Work 2020. The video component of the Asymmetries installation was selected for 20th Edition of the Videoex Internationales Experimental Film and Video Festival in Zurich, 2018. His experimental video work: IF THIS BE A CITY, which is an exploration of the politics of space, citiness and desire, was selected to be part of the experimental Johannesburg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015.

He has worked extensively as a theatre and film production designer including productions such as I Mike What I Like (2004) directed by Kgafela oa Magogodi which was later adapted to the eponymous feature-length film directed by Jyoti Mistry. He also collaborated with filmmaker Jyoti Mistry on a video installation titled Store in a Cool Dry Place which explores the ritual of coffin production in three African cities: Accra, Addis Ababa and Johannesburg. The exhibition opened at WAM (Wits Art Museum) and later travelled to Michaelis Galleries at UCT (University of Cape Town).

He worked in public television broadcasting, commissioning content for 3 South African Broadcasting Corporation Television Channels. He was a jury member for the Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition at the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and at Sarajevo Film Festival 2022.
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