TRENDS IN SOUTH-AFRICAN DOCUMENTARY FILM AND VIDEO - QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY AND SUBJECTIVITY

This paper focuses on the development of an anti-apartheid documentary film and video 'movement' in the period spanning the late 1970s to th e early 1990s. It discusses the growth of independent film-making as w ell as a number of organisational developments. which formed the basis of this 'movement'. The paper broadly describes some of the trends th at have emerged and places these within a theoretical framework that i dentifies and examines questions of identity and subjectivity. It prop oses that new theoretical work is needed to represent South African 'h ybridity' and examines what seems to be a shift towards representing ' hybridity' in recent forms of anti-apartheid documentary film and vide o.