Screening South Africa, Past and Present

Tara Moore, LEGACY: THE DECOLONIZED HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, (2024, 99 min.)
Apartheid was dismantled in 1994, yet three decades later, South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world. The roots of this inequality are revealed in this exploration into South Africa, exposing why they persist today.  A perspective-shifting documentary that features, in unprecedented access, the grandson of the “Architect of Apartheid,” who takes a searingly honest look into his ancestry, exposing not only the systemic strings that Apartheid still holds over South Africa but the psychological strings as well.

Screening South Africa, Past and Present is offered in conjunction with Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibition, David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive. Expanding upon the documentary genre in distinct ways, these three films share the common motive of exposing the rippling effects of apartheid in South Africa, from the 1950s to the present day.

Generously sponsored by Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979. Cosponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Whitney Humanities Center