THE COSMOPOLITAN KAROO RESEARCH FORUM (CKRF)

DST/NRF SOUTH AFRICAN RESEARCH CHAIRS INITIATIVE (SARChI)

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On Thursday, 17 September, we will host a special screening and discussion of the ethnographic film “Tangled” by Dr Annika Capelán. You can join us in person in Room 429 of the Arts and Social Sciences Building, or you can attend online via the Teams link available here. The event will take place from 15:00 to 17:00.

Short description of the film
Tangled is a 66-minute ethnographic film by Annika Capelán, based on long-term research in landscapes of wool production in South Africa, Lesotho, Argentinian Patagonia, and Australia. She calls these landscapes Wool Worked Worlds: places where the presence of sheep has profoundly shaped ecological, social, and material relations, in ways that are both connected and locally particular. Moving through encounters with sheep, people, predators, parasites, vegetation, weather, and wool, the film explores how animals participate in making landscapes and how these landscapes, in turn, shape animal and human lives. Rather than treating sheep simply as livestock or resources, Tangled attends to them as living beings embedded in shifting multispecies ecologies and long histories of breeding, grazing, care, extraction, and adaptation. Through a sensory and situated ethnographic approach, the film invites viewers to consider how landscapes are made through everyday relations between bodies, animals, materials, and environments, and how these relations carry histories into the present.