BERTHA HOUSE

Counter-narratives of Commemoration

Under the theme Counter-narratives of Commemoration, Resonance Archive Festival returns in 2026 with a simple provocation: remembering is never neutral. Every monument, anniversary, museum label and national holiday tells us what to remember, and by extension what to forget. This year the festival asks who writes those versions of the past, whose stories they leave out, and what becomes possible when those stories are told on their own terms.

The programme continues the festival’s conversations on archive and memory through film, performance, visual art and literature, across three cities.

Bertha House

26 November 2026

Screening | 12pm

How Long

Screening | 3pm

African Jim

Jack Markovitz Presents: Beaches and Racism in Cape Town, Cape Dependance

Digital Tour | 4pm

Preserving South Africa’s Motion Picture Heritage at the National Film, Video and Sound Archives

With Christopher Grove

27 November 2026

Screening | 1pm

Knockout

Screening | 3pm

Stoney: The One and Only

A Counter-narrative Anthology: Post-Apartheid Popcorn, Atrophy and the Fear of Fading, Anatomy of Apartheid, The Burning

African Jim

Digital Tour | 4pm

Preserving South Africa’s Motion Picture Heritage at the National Film, Video and Sound Archives

With Christopher Grove

28 November 2026

Screening | 2pm

A Counter-narrative Anthology: Post-Apartheid Popcorn, Atrophy and the Fear of Fading, Anatomy of Apartheid, The Burning

Knockout

Symposium | 3pm

Documenting is Political: On the Methods of Archival Practices

Dee Marco in conversation with Dylan Valley and Sanele ka Ntshingana

Performance Lecture | 4pm

Discipline 33

A performance lecture by Hypocrite

Screening | 6pm

Jack Markovitz Presents: Beaches and Racism in Cape Town, Cape Dependance