Brought to you by Wolff Architects, The Caretaker (2026) follows Meshet, a solitary man living beside Rhodes’ decaying estate in late 1940s Muizenberg. He unofficially maintains the house and grounds, his days shaped by quiet rituals of care and survival. When the City Council announces plans to convert the property into a museum and appoint a “proper” caretaker, Meshet faces eviction. Blending realism and surrealist elements, the project is a haunting meditation on memory, identity and the costs of survival in the shadow of empire.
Director: Ilze Wolff
Producer, sound designer & editor: Malik Ntone Edjabe
Executive producers: Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff
Score recording and composition: Keegan Steenkamp
Director of photography: Meekaaeel Adam
Screenwriter: Mathapelo Mofokeng
Combining various forms of collage, the music video for Lauren Manning’s Melatonin (2025) conjures an intimate, dreamlike world in which lack of sleep, melencholia and vulnerability gradually give way to warmth, tenderness and the restorative joy of human connection.
Directed by: Malik Ntone Edjabe and Lauren Manning
Produced by: Lauren Manning and Malik Ntone Edjabe
Collage art by: Duduetsang Lamola
Cinematographer: Sara Gouveia
Editor: Malik Ntone Edjabe
The vision of Breaking Beliefs is to build a South Africa full of resilient, responsive young people who inspire and support their communities. This is achieved by creating safe spaces where young people are supported through deep listening and gentle enquiry to be open and vulnerable and cultivate their aliveness, creativity and strength.
Commissioned by Breaking Beliefs
Co-directed by Lisa Garson, Asanda Kaka and Malik Ntone Edjabe
Co-produced by Callum Fraser and Malik Ntone Edjabe
Edited by Malik Ntone Edjabe
The 2018 South African Urban Conference followed on from the 2017 event, which focused specifically on communication and engaging with urban stakeholders on the content of the IUDF (Integrated Urban Development Framework). At this follow up event, the aim was to further embed the IUDF agenda by focusing on what implementation means in practice. The following film was produced as a departure point for this conversation.
Directed by Dorothy Brislin
Commissioned by South African Cities Network
Co-produced by Dorothy Brislin and Malik Ntone Edjabe
Edited by Malik Ntone Edjabe
A Sea-drift of Songs is a reconstruction of the sound and visual scapes of the Afro-Asian worlds of the 13th century, gathered under the Re-centring AfroAsia (RAA) project as the AfroAsia Ensemble. It features composers, writers, performers and visual artists from South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Turkey, Spain, India and China.
Commissioned by the Re-centering AfroAsia Project
Directed and edited by Malik Ntone Edjabe
Cinematography by Ngoni Nyembe
On 28 October 2023, the Chimurenga Factory hosted Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O, which invokes the sonic tradition set by two of the bandleader’s mentors, Johnny Mekoa and Jonas Gwangwa.
Commissioned and curated by Chimurenga
Filmed by Vahid Davids and Malik Ntone Edjabe
Directed and edited by Malik Ntone Edjabe
In conversation with multi-instrumentalist Mavambo Chazunguza of Ancient Echo on the origins, politics and spiritual function of Mbira music and more at Milestone Studios, Cape Town.
Commissioned by Africa Open Institute
Co-directed by Julia Raynahm and Malik Ntone Edjabe
Cinematography by Ngoni Nyembe
Produced by Malik Ntone Edjabe