African Design/2018/37 min/Reel № 18.001
BySunu Gonera , Osborne Macharia
Sunu Gonera on finding his voice, afrofuturism and making heroes out of ordinary people
Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018
A close reading, kept within reach.
Sunu Gonera takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Zimbabwe in 2018, the conversation is grounded in Sunu's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
In this opening talk of Design Indaba 2018 that brought the audience to its feet, the filmmaker talks about his career high and lows.
About the speaker
Sunu Gonera
Zimbabwe
The Cannes Lions award-winning filmmaker believes in authentic African storytelling.
Osborne Macharia
Nairobi/Kenya
Osborne Macharia is a self-taught commercial and advertising photographer born and bred in Nairobi, Kenya and with a bachelors in architecture.
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