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Container makes visible the 'invisiblized' bodies enabling our consumer society. Confronting slavery through an ever transforming shipping container, the past becomes the present, the invisible become visible. We witness the shards of society: the ghosts of the past and living spectres of the modern world.

Orbis is a mesmeric journey through one of South Africa's largest townships Umlazi, its inhabitants lives shaped by their proximity to Africa's busiest port - Durban. Pelalani uses a shopping cart to hunt for scrap metal, destroying household goods. Siyabonga draws a Nike sign onto his plain shoes. Avela only 11, bullied for being obese dreams of a swimming costume, turning to the local seamstress Dudu. Durban's port never closes, overseeing material endlessly circling the globe, temporarily shaped as fridges, televisions, washing machines, ultimately destroyed, returned to its creator, reshaped into a new product.

Gripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.

Forerunners soulfully explores what it means to be black and middle class in South Africa today. At the frontier of unprecedented social change Miranda, Mpumi, Martin and Karabo are part of the first generation of black South Africans to rise from poverty and join the country's 'middle class'. They delicately balance the traditional views of their childhood with the western consumerism that rules their professional lives, selecting and discarding elements from each world to forge a new legacy for their descendants. Forerunners is cinematic and experimental. The film has an ethereal feel; the slant of light signals the presence of ancestral spirits and a new dawn. The gentle motif of the wind throughout the film reminds us that past is always carried with us.