Profile
Gertrude Malizeni is a creative filmmaker, multidisciplinary visual artist, and curator based in Tanzania. Getrude's practice centers storytelling as a form of documenting and archiving the lived histories of women. She primarily uses film, installations, painting, and photography; her work listens closely to women laboring in informal spaces, bringing into view forms of care, endurance, and sustenance that hold communities together.
Often maternal in nature, this labor feeds, moves, and nurtures everyday life, yet remains unseen, unvalued, and systematically ignored. By placing these women at the center, her work resists erasure, challenges patriarchal economies of visibility, and insists on recognition for lives and labor that have long been normalized into silence.
