AZIMUTH By Nirma Madhoo “Azibuye - The Occupation” is a stereo 360 docu- mentary about Masello and Evan, two homeless AZIBUYEblack artist/activists who take up residence in an By Dylan Valley crumbling mansion, vacant for 20 years, in an affluent part of Johannesburg. They proclaim their illegal occupation to be an artistic and political act to address the ongoing racial inequalities in land “Azimuth” is in a non-narrative style of experimen- ownership in South Africa. When it is revealed tal fashion film and it seeks to explore notions of who the owner of the house is, the pair have a a digital aesthetic, subverting the idea of difficult decision to make. stereotypical notions of African identities as ethnic ‘Other’. It proposes a glimpse of contemporary South African fashion identities performed in f uturistic renders of South African Brutalist architecture. The elemental states of liquid | solid | ether are further abstracted as birth | life| legacy and, zygotic| mitotic | mutation when imaging this triptych. 50nd3k4 112 50nd3k4 113