Gerhard Hope

'This thing is alive': Cosmic encounter and epistemic liberation in Wesens (2020)

This article examines Wesens (Muller 2020), a South African found-footage film set during the Space Race, as a site of Afrofuturist critique and decolonial inquiry. It argues that the film reconfigures the UFO encounter from a narrative of extraterrestrial rupture into an ontological confrontation with suppressed indig...