Dr Dani Ploeger's Film 'The Cults' to be shown at the London Short Film Festival

On Saturday 22 January, Dr Dani Ploeger’s sci-fi short film The Cults (2021) will be screened at the Curzon Soho cinema as a part of the official selection of the London Short Film Festival. 

The Cults is a post-colonial sci-fi short, shot on Nairobi’s largest dump site, Dandora. It is based on – and responds to – the ethnographic text ‘The Cult of Mumbo in South Kavirondo’ by ‘Nyangweso’ (1930) and John Marshall’s documentary film ‘The Hungers’ (1957). 

The film is one of the outcomes of  Dr Ploeger’s recent Global Challenges Research Fund project, Disobedient Devices. 

Dani Ploeger is an artist, activist, cultural theorist and Research Fellow at Central. His work is centred around computer programming, electronics hacking, cultural theory and performance, and it investigates and subverts the spectacles of sex, violence and waste in techno-consumer culture. This has including making a VR installation while accompanying frontline troops in the Russo-Ukrainian War, travelling to dump sites in Nigeria to collect electronic waste originating from Europe, stealing razor wire from the so-called ‘high-tech fence’ on the EU outer border in Hungary, and interviewing witnesses of the US drone attacks in Pakistan about sound and technologies of violence.   

Book tickets for The Cults at the London Short Film Festival website. 

Find out more about Dr Dani Ploeger’s work on his staff profile page or by visiting his website.