WHERE ART MEETS JUSTICE
Film poster for "Where Art Meets Justice" with film title and credits in red, blue, green, and yellow font.
WHERE ART MEETS JUSTICE
Film poster for "Where Art Meets Justice" with film title and credits in red, blue, green, and yellow font.
Justices Albie Sachs and Yvonne Mokgoro of South Africa’s Constitutional Court discuss art’s role in fledgling democracies and judicial systems

WHERE ART MEETS JUSTICE

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Screening at South Africa's Constitutional Court on 30th Anniversary of the signing of South Africa's first democratic constitution

Intersection of Art and Law • Democratic Constitution • Apartheid and Art • Women's Rights in Emerging Democracies • Anti-apartheid Struggle • Racial Segregation & Conflicts • Museums & Curating Collection


Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 22 minutes | Language: English | Captions: No | Includes: Transcript | Director: Mary Ann Braubach | Producers: Mary Ann Braubach & Albie Sachs | Narration: Alfre Woodard | Cinematography: Joe Mogotsi | Editors: Juliette Edwards, Chris Spatola & Ruben Sebban | Music Composition & Performance: John Densmore, Steve Postell & Mark Gorman | Post Producer: Katie O’Hara | Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau | Editorial Consultant: Lynzee Klingman

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.

SCREENINGS
African Art Centre Durban
William Humphreys Art Gallery Kimberley
Constitutional Court of South Africa in celebration of 30th anniversary of South Africa's new democracy