Welcome to the first selection of our favourite South African video creators on Orms Connect! In October we debuted Orms Presents, a weekly IGTV video series where we feature the outstanding videographic creations from members of our creative community.
The Orms Instagram has an established presence as a hub for resharing the photographic work of the creators we loved, but we recognised that it was high time for us to expand more into the video space. Since the beginning of October, we have used our platform to screen a handpicked film from one of our favourite South African video creators. A new feature is posted every Friday to our IGTV, and it has been so exciting to see how our broader community has been inspired and creatively elevated by these video features.
If you are one of the South African video creators and would like one of your videographic creations to be featured as part of Orms Presents, use the hashtag #ifilmwithorms when you post your next video to your Instagram feed or your IGTV channel.
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We started October with a bang thanks to this visually dense creation from Viwe Madlanga, a graduate of the Orms CTSP Cinematography For Content Creation programme who can be contacted at madlanga.v@gmail.com.
Our second episode comes from visual creator and “Orms x DJI Larger Than Life” entrant, Roark Robinson, whose adventures you can follow on roarkrobinson.
We kept the energy up mid-month thanks to fluffy good vibes of this super-cute video from Instagrammer Matthew Gie, who’s always capturing something over at matthew_gie.
We felt like everyone needed some serenity to make it through the last few weeks of October, and this magnificent piece from Gavin Goodman sure delivered the goods. You can find Gavin shooting mostly stunning fine art photography on gavin_goodman.
Our final feature for the month comes from Matthew Eaton and Fabian Pluddemann, current students at Orms CTSP who collaborated on this visual experience, Not on bread Alone, and can be found making art on mattheweaton_ and fabians_focus.
In addition to celebrating South African video creators, we also feature 9 of our favourite Instagrammers every month on Orms Connect. You can read that blog post here.