A reflection on Jafa's desire to craft a "black cinema" that is responsive to the "existential, political, and spiritual dimensions" of Black life. Comprised of found footage sampled from films, newscasts, sporting events, music videos, and citizen videos, all of it downloaded from the Internet, the clips have been woven together and set to Kanye West's anthem "Ultralight Beam." Together the images and music make for an intense, poignant meditation on African American life in the twentieth-century. This history is also the history, by necessity, of racism and prejudice.
Arthur Jafa
Director, Writer
Panther62%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound68%
The Untold History Of The United States81%
Radium Girls67%
Oranges and Sunshine69%
Los Angeles Plays Itself76%
All Eyez on Me67%
Adventures of a Mathematician61%
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper63%
The Unknown Known68%
Richard Jewell74%
Killer Legends58%
I Called Him Morgan70%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
Visions of Light70%
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead66%
Nail Bomber: Manhunt65%
Blaze62%
The Ambassador66%
The War on Democracy75%
