1) Love Will Tear Us Apart: Japanese and Korean directors created a group of films on the strangeness and madness of love. 2) Attack the Block: Urban teenagers in London fight against an alien invasion. 3) Transfer: An older white couple inhabits the bodies of a young black couple to stay alive.
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Films to SeeGiving a shout out to one of my supporters, “Mr. Thumblewaddle.” Check out his Project Dystopia page on youtube and these two films that he introduced to me: Hilton Carter‘s Moth, which stars Heaven Murphy, is about a visually beautiful film about an actress who finds herself drowning from her heartbreak and drug abuse. Gaspar […]
Read More Shout OutThe thirteenth amendment of the constitution states: “Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.6″ In […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Slavery By Another NameThe above BBC documentary, called Hidden Treasures: African Art, follows the impact of modern culture on the traditional religious Dogon art as well as the transformation of West African traditional art and modern influences in contemporary Malian and Ghanaian art. Watch the whole documentary; at the end you will see a some cool Ghanaian fantasy […]
Read More Otherwordly Videos: The Art of the DogonFor the first day of “Black History Month” (although Black history should be all day, everyday), I want to give a little background history of my return to speculative fiction. Looking back, I have always enjoyed speculative fiction, including science fiction, horror and fantasy. Growing up, I love fables, books and films about talking animals, […]
Read More The My-Stery: My Speculative Return Home…Guillaume Ivernel and Blacklight Movies are producing a film project called, Soul Man, which includes a sci-fi hero with an awesome afro. Shadow and Act did an article on the upcoming film, which the company plans to release in 2014.
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Soul ManAn African Epic. Alaalo (Someone Has a Story), is a short film by a Pratt Institute student, David Adeogun. The coming-of-age film deals with a “group of young African American children and their mentor, and their various struggles as young black people in a culture where Africa is hardly talked about.” To watch the whole […]
Read More Otherwordly Videos: Alaalo“One man’s quest for freedom in a world where music has been outlawed.” If you love music and study music history like I do, you know how powerful music can be. But would music be able to subvert a future fascist state? Anything’s possible (and it has been done before). From director Marc Adamson, the […]
Read More Otherwordly Videos: The Power of Pure FunkAs I work on my honors thesis about percussive and body politics of black music, specifically in hip-hop, the focus of my paper is forming as how sound in black culture has been used as a subversive tactic. Both James W. Perkinson’s Shamanism, Racism, and Hip Hop Culture: Essays on White Supremacy and Black Subversion […]
Read More Otherworldly Videos: The Haunting of SoundBased on the surrealist parlor game, The Exquisite Corpse, this film series, called Little Minx Exquisite Corpse, consists of the films that were produced based on the last line of text of the previous director’s script and the Minx signifier only. The 2007 film series was created by Little Minx & Idealogue. Above is the […]
Read More Otherworldly Videos: The Exquisite Corpse
Sherese Francis 