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Originating as a mobile amateur filmmaking workshop, their work continues to centre open-ended, participatory storytelling with young people in public and experimental spaces. Embracing lo-fi aesthetics as both method and critique, Lo-Def interrogates the entanglement of local contexts with extractive economies and global technological systems.
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LO-DEF FILM FACTORY is a South African artist duo formed in 2019 by Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson in Cape Town. Their collaborative practice spans archival research, dramaturgy, and visual strategies drawn from video art, collage, sculptural installation, and new media. Originating as a mobile amateur filmmaking workshop, their work continues to centre open-ended, participatory storytelling with young people in public and experimental spaces. Embracing lo-fi aesthetics as both method and critique, Lo-Def interrogates the entanglement of local contexts with extractive economies and global technological systems.
Exhibitions
The exhibition explores the concept of the permacrisis and how radical acceptance and rage may be interconnected.
Taking a cue from the medium, the exhibition teases out deeper questions of visual consumption and creation, not only of the images we ingest, but also the countless worlds and realities reinforced by film. Some might argue the line between public and private has entirely dissolved through micro-videos and a cadence of clickbait. Then, perhaps, our sense of crisis is magnified by a medium and culture of hyper-real image making.