Volko Kamensky - A Trilogy

Divina Obsesión (1999) Alles was wir haben (2004) Oral History (2009)

The Long Take Film Club | June 2026 Volko Kamensky: A Trilogy
Wednesday 24 June | 19:00 | The Bioscope, 44 Stanley Avenue

Our June Film Club asks for a complete reset. After having watched multiple fiction films with drifting characters, we're taking another exit at the roundabout of film programming and would like to show a trilogy of experimental documentaries about places, memories and the intersection between history and storytelling.

Three short films by German filmmaker, visual artist and lecturer Volko Kamensky — Divina Obsesión (1999), Alles was wir haben (2004), and Oral History (2009) — use the same deceptively simple method: slow, almost mathematical camera movements through constructed or mundane spaces, layered with voices that don't quite match what you're seeing. The tension between image and sound is the whole point.

Over three films, Kamensky probes how myths get made — about roundabouts, a small-town museum, a village in the forest that may not exist. The result is somewhere between documentary and fiction, and deliberately uncomfortable about which is which.

Tickets at thebioscope.co.za. Post-screening discussion in the courtyard.

Ag shem, round and round we go.