SONYA MWAMBU

DESBORDAMIENTOS

Fundación Luis Seoane | Friday June 6th | 11:00 pm | Free entry to all venues until full capacity. It will not be possible to enter the venues after the screening has started.

In Desbordamientos, we are presenting the Ugandan-born artist Sonya Mwambu, coming from Canada. The experimental filmmaker and editor is bringing us their hybrid performance Maono Mzimi. Their work focuses on the intersections of their identities through the exploration of race, gender, language and the connections they find through experimentation with analogue film. 

MAONO MZIMI
Sonya Mwambu | 2025 | Canada | 16 mm, digital, live reading | 30 min

“You’ll tell me of things, and things. Of that lost time, Of empty fields spanning away from deserted mountains, Of a thousand unbroken spaces of vision.

How do I find space when I am lost to time? How shall I vision in the gaze of my ancestors? Why are you here? And so in front of our gods that have come to play; images, time and lost meaning perform in the hopes of finding these (un)broken spaces of vision”. 

Maono Mzimi is a 30-minute 16 mm and digital hybrid performance in which loss is explored through space and motion. A reiteration and continuation of the work carried out at the Independent Imaging Retreat – Film Farm, Maono Mzimi is meant to be experienced as a riddle, motioned together and breathed.” (Sonya Mwambu)