‘Sentinel’ is an experimental documentary and visual essay following the Braamfontein Spruit and the pylons that line its course from urban spaces into the suburbs. The film shifts between careful observation and lyrical abstraction, using lingering stillness, slow pans, and moments where geometry, reflection and shadow transform pragmatic structures into spectral forms.

It explores the relationship between the pylons and the river – the ancient flow of the Spruit juxtaposed with the invisible currents of the industrial grid. These parallel circuits of water and electricity, ecology and infrastructure, reveal layered connections and interdependence.

The work preserves space for both secular ritual and spiritual practice, tracing how these steel guardians shape land and daily rhythms. Memory and place intertwine as documentary fragments fold into meditative time. Light becomes material, flickering across pylons, water, and foliage, acting as a medium of visibility and a subtle reminder of impermanence.

Noa Hall (b. 2000) is a Johannesburg-based artist working across video, painting, and installation. Her practice explores how still and moving images shape contemporary modes of perception and our sense of presence within space.

She creates large-scale immersive environments and experimental films that invite slow looking and embodied reflection. Through her work, she investigates what it means to inhabit a body within spatial, social, and technological systems, seeking moments of quiet attention and resonance within the flows of everyday experience.