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Where art meets justice.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sachs, Albie, 1935-.
- Sachs, Albie.
- Mokgoro, Y. (Yvonne).
- Mokgoro, Y.
- Art--Political aspects--South Africa.
- Art.
- Art and society--South Africa--History.
- Art and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (00:22:46)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captions in English.
- Summary:
- Justice Albie Sachs, chief architect of South Africa's constitution and Bill of Rights, and Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, first Black woman justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, discuss art's role plays in a fledgling democracy and judicial systems. In 1994, President Nelson Mandela appointed Justices Albie Sachs and Yvonne Mokgoro to South Africa's first Constitutional Court. Sachs is an ANC freedom fighter and survivor of a 1988 assassination attempt by South African Police. Upon their appointment, Sachs and Mokgoro co- founded the Court's now world-renowned art collection. The collection reflects the history of the constitution, the court, and their role in the new democracy. Justices Sachs and Mokgoro share how their activism intersected with the arts and the arts' role in promoting justice and reconciliation. Where Art Meets Justice features interviews with South African artists William Kentridge, Willie Bester, Marlene Dumas, Hlengiwe Dube, Pitika Ntuli, Sue Williamson, as well as the Handspring Puppeteers and photographer David Goldblatt. The artists contextualize the works with personal accounts of apartheid and post-apartheid history. These conversations with artists and Court Justices offer new life to the Court's art collection, and inform viewers about the history of the country's first democratic constitution and Constitutional Court.
- Participant:
- Director, Mary Ann Braubach.
- Notes:
- Description based on XML content.
- ISBN:
- 9781036250003
- OCLC:
- 1584442902
- Publisher Number:
- 302361
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