SCREENING: "Nuh~Mi~Bee~Uhn"
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum
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The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: Presented a screening for the film Nuh-Mi Bee-Uhn, directed by Kavena Hambira. The film “focuses on the twentieth century’s first genocide—the Herero and Nama Genocide," carried out by Germany in 1904 in his family’s native Namibia.
WATCH: The film was accompanied by a discussion with Hambira and his colleague, Miriam Gleckman-Krut, both of whom were artist-scholars-in residence at the Memory for the Future Studiolab at Washington University in St. Louis. The discussion examines the linkages between the history and memory of this and other genocides and the Holocaust.
52nd University of California, Berkeley
Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition
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MFA - Thesis Exhibition, 2022: Hambira created an installation that is grounded in a large multicolored flag, on which Namibia is spelled out phonetically, a nod to former President Trump’s mispronunciation of the country’s name in a speech to the United Nations in 2017. Quilted with colors that are found in both the German and Namibian flags, the piece enforces a correction while tethering the error to the colonial violence that defines Namibia’s history and present. Alongside the flag is an otjikaiva, a Victorian-style hat like those worn by nineteenth-century German missionaries but made of Namibian fabrics—an important sign of cultural identity for the Herero in resistance to the history of the genocide.
ARTIST TALK: "Nuh~Mi~Bee~Uhn"
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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MFA - Thesis Film Project, 2022: Playing as part of the installation, Hambira’s film draws together personal and historical contexts for the work. Kavena delivers his opening remarks and previews an excerpt of his new short film Nuhmibeeuhn, at The 52nd Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, May 2022, Berkeley, California.
STUDENT FILM
The People's Uncle
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Student Film - MFA Show, 2021: After the murder of his nephew Oscar Grant by a BART police officer in 2009, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson emerged as a national social justice activist. At the forefront of the struggle to end police violence in the United States, the story of “The People’s Uncle”-- his journey and his work with families affected by similarly brutal experiences- is told in this moving documentary by Namibian filmmaker Kavena Hambira.
VOLUNTEER WORK
Families United for Justice
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Myrtle Beach, SC: The Love Not Blood Campaign and Families United For Justice held their annual conference between Sept- Oct 2022 in Myrtle Beach, SC. The organization serves those who have lost loved ones to State and community violence across the United States. Video filmed and edited by LNBC volunteer, Kavena Hambira.
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