Story Strategies with Lesedi Oluko Moche
Lesedi Oluko Moche talks about storytelling, symbols, and curatorial practice.
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Lesedi Oluko Moche says that her work is about complicating simplified ideas of identity. She connects this strongly to her own life. And to the historical circumstances that led her family to be scattered across different places. Lesedi is a South Africa–based Story Producer and Narrative Strategist, as well as a creative producer and festival curator. Her work moves between film, television, podcasting, and cultural programming. At the centre of her practice is storytelling. She is particularly interested in symbols and in how meaning travels through time, how power and history appear in everyday life, often very subtly.
We met in January for a Zoom conversation, where she spoke about her work and her approaches to storytelling. In November last year, she also took part in the book launch of CINÉMA AFRICAIN – Archiving, Resistance and Freedom, to which she contributed the text “The T-Shirt: Unchosen Histories in Cinematic Texts.”
The book was edited by Nadia Denton and Sandra Krampelhuber and published by JAAPO in 2025. The full recording of the book launch is available on the dorfTV website. The publication itself is also available as a free PDF download. We also talk about this text in the interview, and you’ll find out whether Lesedi sees herself as a diva in Divensplitter.
Music (c): Koko Taylor, Nina Simone, Thandiswa Mazwai, Amy Winehouse and Erykah Badu
Zuletzt geändert am 26.01.26, 11:58 Uhr
