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 the early 1990s. It discusses the growth of independent film-making as well as a number of organisational developments, which formed the basis of this 'movement'. The paper broadly describes some of the trends that have emerged and places these within a theoretical framework that identifies and examines questions of identity and subjectivity. It proposes that new theoretical work is needed to represent South African 'hybridity' and examines what seems to be a shift towards representing 'hybridity' in recent forms of anti-apartheid documentary film and video.