Otherwordly Videos: Rules Aren’t Real

Nasimiyu – “Rules Aren’t Real” “Go Forth Without Fear”

Otherworldly Videos: Whatever Happened to the Times?

Bobby Womack goes into his own outer space in his video for “Whatever Happened to the Times?”

Otherworldly Videos: Grace Jones and a Hula Hoop

Grace Jones singing “Slave to the Rhythm” and looking fierce with a hula hoop at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert. Enough said.

Otherworldy Videos: Two Perspectives on Akan Spirituality

A few days a go, I watched these two documentaries on the religions of the West African Akan ethic group. “Return to the Land of Souls” Watch the entire film here This is the description of the film: In the 21st century, many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In […]

Otherworldy Videos: I Am Other

From Kiss My Black Ads Pharrell Williams always seems to have something cooking, so it should come as no surprise that the renaissance man has launched an uplifting video for his media venture, i am OTHER. Seen as way more than merely a record label, and instead a cultural movement of sorts, i am OTHER […]

Otherwordly Videos: Deluge

Via Liberator Magazine “Nijla Mu’min’s “Deluge” / Magical Realism, post-BP oil spill New Orleans, and Black Mermaids” By Kameelah Rasheed Nijla Baseema Mu’min is a writer and filmmaker from the San Francisco Bay Area. A 2007 graduate of UC Berkeley, she is now pursuing a dual MFA degree in Film Directing and Writing at Calarts. […]

Otherworldly Videos: Aja Monet’s What I’ve Learned…

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Presents “Aja Monet – What I’ve Learned” A Camovement by Cam Be & Aja Monet Aja Monet is the youngest to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grandslam Championship title in 2007 at the age of 19.

Otherworldly Videos: Interdimensional Black People

In his “Threatdown” segment of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert uses a multidimensional explanation for why Black men in New York City are stopped and frisked so much (there are more stops done than the number of Black men actually living in the city). Another well done satire from Colbert.

Otherworldy Videos: Cosmosis

From Miatta Kawinzi Created during my iaab artist residency in Basel, Switzerland, Cosmosis reflects on dualities of alienation and belonging, inner and outer space, and human-shaped and natural environments. The title references osmosis, the process of absorption, as it applies to navigating an unfamiliar environment, and as it applies to the cosmos as the realm […]

Otherworldly Videos: Afropunk Presents….

Wangechi Mutu Sanford Biggers Barron Clairborne On MAY 24th at BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Afro-punk pictures presents “The Triptych,” in association with Weeksville Heritage Center. This short-film series (Dir. Terence Nance, Dir. of Photography Shawn Peters, Co-Dir. Barron Claiborne) highlights the work of artists Sanford Biggers, Wangechi Mutu, and Barron Claiborne. Live music and a Q&A with […]