Without Question
Hildegard Titus
2019
Without Question is a performance/installation film that interrogates the correlation between Namibia’s colonial history and the subjugation of black women. After the Ovaherero and Nama genocide, black women were forced to work as domestic workers in white homes, with little to no compensation. Today, domestic workers are still one of the most marginalized and underpaid members of the workforce despite being essential to creating and maintaining homes. This piece questions why the role of servitude has been expected and never questioned when it is performed by black women but seen as anomaly performed by white women.
Hildegard Titus (b. 1991, Otjiwarongo, Namibia) lives and works in Windhoek. She is a Namibian filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores identity, race, gender, and ecology. Through intimate yet critical imagery, she reflects on how colonial legacies continue to shape women’s bodies and labour in post-independence Namibia. Fruit of Her Womb (2025) highlights womanhood’s entanglement with motherhood, while Without Question (2019) traces the afterlives of domestic servitude and racial hierarchy. Merging personal narrative with collective memory, Titus creates visual essays that challenge inherited norms and reassert black women’s agency in history and imagination alike.
Most recently, she also facilitated the Windhoek Decolonial City Tour (June 2025), asking audiences to trace colonial legacies in urban space.