Team
Rosalind Morris | Director-Producer
Rosalind Morris is an award-winning anthropologist, cultural critic and media theorist, who has taught at Columbia University, where she is Professor of Anthropology, for 25 years.
She has worked for more than two decades to document the transforming life-worlds around the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. She is the author of 7 books and more than 70 essays, and has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Berlin Prize and the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin, the Lenfest Prize, the Lichstein Lectures of the University of Chicago, and residential fellowships at the Institute for Cultural Technology and Media Philosophy in Weimar, the Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton and Stellenbosch, and the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio.
In addition to her scholarly writings, Morris has collaborated extensively with South African artists, including William Kentridge, with whom she has written three books, Clive van den Berg (whose work is the subject of her monograph, Unlearning the Grounds of Art), Ebrahim Hajee and Songezile Madikida.
As a filmmaker, Rosalind Morris has directed and produced works in documentary, narrative and expanded cinematic forms. The Gamblers premiered in Berlin at the ICI in January 2019. With Yvette Christiansë, she is the co-librettist on two operas with the composer Zaid Jabri.
Pascal Troemel | EDITOR
Pascal Ploetz Troemel is a New York-based editor. He works mainly in documentary film, but has edited everything from commercials and music videos to award-winning narrative shorts. He has worked with acclaimed director Gianfranco Rosi, as well as a host of other bound ary-pushing directors during the span of his 10-year career.
Troemel’s documentary credits include Borderline (2016), directed by Debbie Ratner and Borderline Notes, a youtube channel of 350 short films to accompany the feature film; Volta, directed by Stella Kyriakopoulos (2014), and selected for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival; and Drinking from the Well (2011), directed by Skinner Myers.
EBRAHIM HAJEE | CINEMATOGRAPHER
Ebrahim Hajee grew up in Athlone, a poor suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. He started doing graffiti and community empowerment work through art while still a youth, but turned to film shortly thereafter.
His first documentary, Overspray (2001) grew out of his work as a street artist, and became an iconic film about the genre in South Africa, winning the gold award for best documentary at the Stone Awards.
Since then, Hajee has established himself as one of the most desired and creative cinematographers in the business in South Africa, working for both local and international companies on projects that range from feature narratives to guerilla documentaries, music videos to television commercials. Hajee is also a still photographer, who works in a variety of analog and digital formats.
Musa Radebe | Sound recordist
Musa Radebe has been in the industry as a Sound Engineer since 1993.
He was trained and worked for ITN (Independent Television News) from 1993-1999, before moving to Quizzical Pictures (then Curious Pictures) as a researcher and sound technician.
Since 2003, he has worked on a freelance basis, contributing the sound to a fantastic array of documentary and television serials, including The Life and Times of Madiba and Black Diamonds for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Ipi-ntombi, the Cast, and Survivor SA as well as South Africa’s Got Talent.
