This week’s film is “The Swimmer,” a short by Salise Hughes, a local artist who, among other practices, recycles and remixes forgotten scenes/moments/sequences in Hollywood movies of the classical period. In “The Swimmer,” a moment in an old film starring Burt Lancaster, is appropriated or, to use the language of the Situationist International, détourned.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...