2025-10-02 | Thania Petersen: event at Nederlands Film Academie (with Afrovibes and TMF)

Jawap and Kassaram | Thania Petersen  

Afrovibes, Thami Mnyele Foundation, and Film Academy Amsterdam cordially invite you to a screening of two films by South African artist Thania Petersen. On Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 19:00 you are welcome at the Film Academy Amsterdam, Markenplein 1, Amsterdam. In addition to showing her two films, there will be a conversation with Thania Petersen about her work.

Admission is free. RSVP here: reservering@afrovibes.nl. Include your name and how many spots you want to reserve.

Program:

19.00 - 19.15  Refreshments | Guest arrival

19.15  Welcome and introduction

- Nduka Mntambo, Nederlandse Filmacademie

- Pauline Burmann, Thami Mnyele Foundation

- Jay Pather, Afrovibes Festival

19.30 Film screening:  Kassaram (2020)

Kassaram (2020) is Thania Petersen's second video film. Kassaram is an old Malay word meaning ‘things that are out of place’. This animated film is about the artistic strategies used by European colonizers to demarcate and separate various communities in South Africa.

19.45 Artist Talk: Thania Petersen in conversation with Jay Pather 

20.15  Filmscreening: Jawap (2025)

In her latest video film Jawab (2025), Thania Petersen follows the migration of Sufi music. The music that has connected Africa, the Cape, and Asia throughout the centuries through centuries-spanning journeys and migrations across the Indian Ocean. Jawab means ‘answers’ and is a term used by Muslims in Cape Town to participate in communal recitals and performances. Thania Petersen asks herself ‘what answers do our children give us’? Our children are the guardians of time. They look at us from what lies ahead of us. We live on in them, they carry the memory of what we will become. For Thania Petersen, this is what Sufi music symbolizes: the communal memory in which we live on.

20.30 Q&A with audience