Benjamin Njui's video: FOUND FOOTAGE

Found Footage is the preface to the curatorial project, Crossings & Moorings, an immersive and interactive multi-media exhibition exploring historical movement of people, and the transmission and transformation of identities across geography and time, with a focus on the cultures of the Indian Ocean Coast. Taking as its starting point, the Afro-Iran project of German-Iranian photographer Mahdi Ehsaei, Found Footage experiments with storytelling by including images from work by award-winning documentary photographer Migwa Nthigah to weave narratives of everyday movement and interaction within, and among cultures existing along the Indian Ocean Coast. Found Footage also showcases archival images from contributors like Dr. Nidhi Mahajan and The Friends of Fort Jesus.