Browsing by Author "Mathafeng, Refiloe"

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    Examining personal memory in film: A reflection of documenting memory-stories in Reimagining Memories
    (2023) Mathafeng, Refiloe; Modisane, Litheko
    My film, Reimagining Memories, explores my grandmother's childhood. Some of her most cherished memories are her trips between Lesotho and Cape Town and the time she would spend in the city. With clarity, attachment and a sense of longing, she often never misses an opportunity to reminisce about her travels. She longingly talks about her train trips from Gugulethu to Cape Town CBD, the beach and the home she shared with her brothers and sisters. These are the stories I grew up hearing, and when she was diagnosed with dementia in 2019, these memories stayed with her the most. At its core, Reimagining Memories interrogates space, remembering and the storytelling aspect of orality that has allowed my grandmother's memory-stories to exist inter-generationally. The concept of orality is integral to the film and is what inspired its making. Based on stories of her childhood that I heard growing up, my film visually reimagines what my grandmother's childhood between two worlds would have looked like had she had access to technologies that would allow her to document them. Instead, it is through telling that her memory-stories have been preserved and transmitted down generations. Based on the film, this mini-thesis examines the representation of personal memory using cinematic language and the documentary genre. It utilizes three conventions of documentary, namely testament (interviews), archive and experimentation, to reimagine my grandmother's memory stories while simultaneously interrogating what it means to remember Cape Town in the 1950s during a time of political unrest, with great fondness. In conjunction with my film, this mini-thesis highlights the selectiveness and subjectivity ingrained in the process of an individual's act of remembering. In documenting these stories, the film itself becomes a memory – performing new meanings and alternative ways of engaging with orality, questions of memory and remembering.
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    Examining personal memory in film: A reflection of documenting memory-stories in Reimagining Memories
    (2023) Mathafeng, Refiloe; Modisane, Litheko
    My film, Reimagining Memories, explores my grandmother's childhood. Some of her most cherished memories are her trips between Lesotho and Cape Town and the time she would spend in the city. With clarity, attachment and a sense of longing, she often never misses an opportunity to reminisce about her travels. She longingly talks about her train trips from Gugulethu to Cape Town CBD, the beach and the home she shared with her brothers and sisters. These are the stories I grew up hearing, and when she was diagnosed with dementia in 2019, these memories stayed with her the most. At its core, Reimagining Memories interrogates space, remembering and the storytelling aspect of orality that has allowed my grandmother's memory-stories to exist inter-generationally. The concept of orality is integral to the film and is what inspired its making. Based on stories of her childhood that I heard growing up, my film visually reimagines what my grandmother's childhood between two worlds would have looked like had she had access to technologies that would allow her to document them. Instead, it is through telling that her memory-stories have been preserved and transmitted down generations. Based on the film, this mini-thesis examines the representation of personal memory using cinematic language and the documentary genre. It utilizes three conventions of documentary, namely testament (interviews), archive and experimentation, to reimagine my grandmother's memory stories while simultaneously interrogating what it means to remember Cape Town in the 1950s during a time of political unrest, with great fondness. In conjunction with my film, this mini-thesis highlights the selectiveness and subjectivity ingrained in the process of an individual's act of remembering. In documenting these stories, the film itself becomes a memory – performing new meanings and alternative ways of engaging with orality, questions of memory and remembering.
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    Examining personal memory in film: A reflection of documenting memory-stories in Reimagining Memories
    (2023) Mathafeng, Refiloe; Modisane, Litheko
    Background Treatment-limiting severe cutaneous adverse reactions (SCAR) occur more commonly amongst persons co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and advanced HIV. The impact of SCAR on long-term HIV and TB outcomes is unknown. Methods Patients with active TB and/or HIV admitted to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa with SCAR between 1/10/2018 and 30/09/2021 were eligible. Clinical and laboratory follow-up data was collected for 6 and 12-month outcomes: mortality, TB and antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen changes, TB treatment completion, and CD4 count recovery. Results Forty-eight SCAR admissions included: 34, 11, and 3 HIV-associated TB, HIV-only and TB-only patients with 32, 13 and 3 cases of drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms, StevensJohnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis and generalised bullous fixed drug eruption respectively. Nine (19%), all HIV-positive, were deceased at 12-months, and 12 (25%) were lost to all care levels. Amongst TB-SCAR patients, seven (21%) were discharged on all four first-line anti-TB drugs (FLTD), while 12 (33%) had discharge regimens with no FLTDs; 24/37 (65%) completed TB treatment. Amongst HIV-SCAR patients, 10/31 (32%) changed ART regimen. If retained in care (24/36), median (IQR) CD4 counts increased by 12-months post-SCAR (115 (62-175) vs. 319 (134-439) cells/uL). Conclusion SCAR admission amongst patients with HIV-associated TB results in substantial mortality, and considerable treatment complexity. However, if retained in care, TB regimens are successfully completed, and immune recovery is good despite SCAR.