Apart from direction, he is also a producer, writer, camera operator, actor, cinematographer and editor.
[7] Perivi is an accomplished filmmaker, with his latest work, Under the Hanging Tree premiering at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and becoming Namibia’s first-ever submission to the Academy Awards in the Best International Feature category 2024.
It went on to play at several international film festivals including Busan in South Korea and in competition at Durban.
City Press called it “an entirely new kind of cinema, inventing for itself a new language, refusing to be trapped in the past or shaped by white or Western[9] film models the way many South African films still are.” Apart from cinema, he has also written extensively for the Windhoek Observer, Africa is a Country, and OkayAfrica.
[8] Katjavivi also contends that aside of being any kind of genre film, ‘Under the Hanging Tree’ offers a unique and arguably unseen window into a contemporary Namibia still grappling with its colonial ghosts.