Jonathan Shapiro (aka Zapiro) of ZA News

Film & Animation/2010/42 min/Reel № 10.001

ByJonathan Shapiro, ZA News

Zapiro and Thierry Cassuto on satire and ZA News

Let It Out!/Recorded 2010

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Jonathan Shapiro takes film & animation 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 South Africa in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Jonathan'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.

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ZA News is the result of a long-term collaboration between political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (aka Zapiro), and producer Thierry Cassuto.

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About the speaker

Jonathan Shapiro

Cape Town/South Africa

Better known as Zapiro, he has published 11 cartoon collections and held solo exhibitions in New York, London and Frankfurt.

ZA News

Cape Town/South Africa

ZA News is the result of a long-term collaboration between political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (aka Zapiro), and film and TV producer Thierry Cassuto.