Portrait of a City was a film workshop with architecture students from the University of East London, London, UK and the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. The students explored narratives of their respective cities through visual and sonic samplings of the urban environment,  borrowing methods of surrealist urban practices (psychogeographical games such as exquisite corpse and the Derive) to undertake playful and coincidental encounters. The films reveal new ways of seeing, interpreting and reading the world, cataloguing shared, contrasting and emerging urban themes and phenomena. The workshop was led by Dr. Huda Tayob (UCT) and Reem Charif (UEL) with Claudia Palma (UEL), Buhle Mathole (UCT), Andrew Nimmo (UCT), Matthew Dasneves (UCT), James Page (UCT) , Tasnim Moosa (UCT), Ana Corrochano (UCT), Toshiya Kogawa (UEL), and Charlotte Harris (UEL).

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