Yazeed Kamaldien
AVA Exhibition: A Home Called Vogue (Short Film) | 07.08.25 - 25.09.25
Yazeed Kamaldien’s documentary films focus on marginalised voices: displaced, peripheral, forgotten. Among his films is a focus on finding home and what that means.
‘This Was Our Home’ focuses on former District Six residents and their longing for the homes apartheid separated them from due to forced removals. It was selected for the annual Infecting the City public arts festival in Cape Town.
‘Sounds of a Cape Town Home’ is a three-part short video series that features the Islamic praise songs Kamaldien heard regularly growing up in his paternal grandmother’s house in Lansdowne, Cape Town. It speaks of nostalgia and a longing for the forever-childhood home.
Displacement of people from their homes because of profit and war features in his films ‘Imagine the Cup’ made in Brazil and ‘Inside Kobane’ made in Syria.
Kamaldien was born in Cape Town, where he lives, and has worked as a journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker.
Website: https://yazkam.com
