Chris Kets is a Filmmaker and cultural producer from Cape Town. His early work focusedon subculture in South Africa. Working with a wide array of artists his music video IceDrop and short documentary #gqomwave (2015-2016) became part of a permanentdisplay at London’s Museum of design on the history of electronic music. Chris is creativedirect... Read More

Chris Kets is a Filmmaker and cultural producer from Cape Town. His early work focusedon subculture in South Africa. Working with a wide array of artists his music video IceDrop and short documentary #gqomwave (2015-2016) became part of a permanentdisplay at London’s Museum of design on the history of electronic music. Chris is creativedirector of Third Space (2021 - present) at Boiler Room, a multi-disciplinary project thattells the story of emerging music subcultures from the Global South. Chris’ recent shortfilms include “Freedom Sounds: From Kwaito to AmaPiano” (2022) charting the history ofSouth Africa’s expression of freedom through the genres Kwaito to its manifestation asAmaPiano currently and a short hybrid documentary film “6SENSE” (2024) whichpremiered at the Encounters Documentary festival in 2024 about a visually-impairedGqom producer from rural Kwa-Zulu Natal. He has worked as a cinematographer andeditor on multiple award winning documentaries such as Not in my Neighbourhood (2018)and video art pieces such as Amahubo (2018) which exhibited at the TATE modern. He iscurrently in Post-Production on his first feature film with collaborator Adrian Van Wyk:Notes from the Underground, which recently attended Cannes Docs as a Spotlightedproject. He is also Developing multiple broadcast length TV format documentaries for 2026. Read Less