Screening: The Wooden Camera

VAC 2024 Artist-in-Residence Violette Bule presents a screening of The Wooden Camera as part of her exhibition Una Luz: Photography Under Confinement in Venezuela. This film reflects Bule’s work in Venezuelan penitentiaries between 2010 and 2012, where she introduced inmates to photography using the film The Wooden Camera as a catalyst for conversations on the value of creative expression, photo ethics, and documentary image-making.  

The Wooden Camera (Dir. Ntshavheni wa Luruli, 2004) follows two boys in post-apartheid South Africa after they stumble upon a gun and camera while playing along a railway. The film positions the gun and camera as tools to achieve both productive and adverse sociocultural status.  

Artist Violette Bule will join the event virtually to introduce the film.