Saturday, March 28, 20:00–22:00
At this Art Bar event, we will screen The Hen That Came Home To Roost, a short film by Zimbabwean artist Elliot Moyo.
The work was originally screened at the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo, an arts festival held in 2021 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city. The approximately 10-minute film was created in response to the fact that one in three women in Zimbabwe experiences sexual abuse during childhood.
The screening was made possible through the participation of poet and artist Mira Tezuka—a staff member of our organization—in the exhibition Vital Voices — Give to Gain, held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in conjunction with International Women’s Day.
In Zimbabwe, making this presentation in Japan is a particularly valuable opportunity, especially since CIMAM was held in Zimbabwe this year, which has brought significant attention to African art and has been especially meaningful for Zimbabwean artists.
In addition to the screening, we will host a short online talk with Elliot Moyo himself, along with guest speaker Rinako Shirai from the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, who kindly introduced us to the artist.
On the evening of the event, we will also serve drinks and sweets made with imitating of baobab, a fruit commonly enjoyed locally in Zimbabwe 🌴.
Why not join us with your favorite drink in hand and take the opportunity to learn more about Zimbabwean society and women’s rights?
Please see the timetable below and we hope to see you there.
Date & Time: Saturday, March 28, 20:00–22:00
Venue: Art Center NEW Café (Reception Counter)
Participation Fee : One Drink Order （Please order whatever you like）
Cooperation:National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo
Actors: Agnes Ncube, Precious Makulumo, Memory Kumbota
Cinematography: Tamsaqa Mlalazi
20:00 – Introduction
20:30 – Screening
21:00 – Talk Event with Elliot Moyo & Rinako Shirai
21:30 – 22:00 – Free Time
※This work contains expressions and scenes that may evoke trauma related to sexual violence.
※The screening can be viewed after the exhibition Dai Oki Hiroyuki Ten (closing at 20:00 on the same day).
Filmmaker. Photographer. Writer.
Founder of early entertainment
Elliot moyo is a Zimbabwean filmmaker, photographer, and writer whose work interrogates interiority, silence, and the psychological architecture of lived experience. Working across moving image and still photography, he is drawn to the quiet forces that shape individual identity, particularly in environments marked by tension, memory, and unspoken history. Moyo’s practice is rooted in storytelling as cultural inheritance. From oral traditions to contemporary visual language, he approaches art as both excavation and offering: a way of taking things apart to understand them, and rebuilding them with intention. His work often explores masculinity, intergenerational trauma, grief, and the inherited emotional patterns that travel across generations. He is the founder of early entertainment, a production and distribution company committed to intelligent, conversation-shifting storytelling. His projects are independently driven and grounded in the belief that art must hold meaning beyond spectacle. His film The Hen That Came Home to Roost opens with a warning:
Based in Zimbabwe, she previously worked at the Japan Foundation and is currently serving as a member of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers under Japan International Cooperation Agency. She is currently working at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, where she is involved in organizing exhibitions and managing residency programs while exploring, from an on-the-ground perspective, the role of cultural infrastructure in the local context.
