NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE OCCURRED

WENDY MORRIS

Film / Letter to Solomon T. Plaatjie / 2017

A praise poem and a question to the South African writer Solomon T. Plaatje. Where is the memory of the Mendi held?

Song: ‘Singa Mawele’. Solomon Plaatje. 1923.
Zonophone Records, 4168. South African Music Archive Project.

Voice: Wendy Morris
Sound design/music: Yannick Franck

The work is part of the six-film installation ‘This, of course, is a work of the imagination‘.