Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town
Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies, and a member of the Environmental Humanities South research program at the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on the South African film, wildlife documentary and literary fiction. He is currently working on representations of Cape Town in film. In 2013, he received a Distinguished Teacher’s Award from the University of Cape Town, and in 2014 a National Excellence in Teaching award from the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association of South Africa.
Mother City: a tough, passionate film about the battle for affordable housing in Cape Town
Jun 20, 2024 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
A third of the way into Mother City theres a scene that characterises this tough, passionate film about Cape Town and its paradoxes of beauty and hardship, wealth and poverty, and the way it excludes the working...