Otherworldly Videos: Mil-K + Dubbul O + Sparkz + Melo X + Sa-Roc + Katdelic (Children of the Mothership)

Jamil Kayin aka Mil-K’s “Mothership” Below are some other artists who reference “the mothership:”

Otherwordly Videos: The Seshen + Moor Mother Goddess + G&D

The Seshen – “2000 Seasons” Based on Ayi Kwei Armah‘s book, the meaning behind the psychedelic video “…addresses the sense of ownership that drives colonization of the land, the mind, and the body. Traveling through inner and outer universes, the video delves further into this concept of conquest with a diamond taking the central role […]

Otherworldly Videos: S.A. Miller’s “Into the Darkness”

Happy Friday the 13th! While browsing the internet for Caribbean speculative film, I found Bajan (Barbadian) filmmaker channel and his apocalyptic film Into the Darkness. The film follows a young boy who is trying to survive amidst the threat of revenants — visible ghosts or animated corpses that were believed to return from the grave […]

Otherworldly Videos: Walking with Gods + CV Nation

Rapper and actor David Banner has a new live-action, superhero series, Walking with Gods. It is about a man, Alex Light, who is an incarnation of Aket Heru, based on the Egyptian deity, and is trying to realize his godly powers after ages of not knowing them. The series uses animation from well-known artist John […]

Otherworldly Videos: Noise Gate + Spoek Mathambo + Fhloston Paradigm

Here is Donovan Vim Crony’s sci-fi short Noise Gate! The film is about a “dimension-traveling scientist who is in search of the ultimate reality. His only passage into that realm is something called the NOISE GATE.” It reminds me a little bit of Afrikan Boy and DJ Shadow’s ending for the video for “I’m Excited.” […]

Otherworldly Videos: Kina Sky + Ain’t Nothing But a She Thing

Sorry everyone that I have been gone so long. I kind of was distracted for a bit. But I am back! In light of some of the recent internet controversies that happened last week, including one involving Harriet Tubman (shame on you Russell!), here is a some uplifting videos: 1) Kina Sky from Jamaican filmmaker […]

Otherworldly Videos: A Seed of Hope – Baobab + Simphiwe Dana

I saw these two beautiful videos today, the French short film, Baobab, and South African singer Simphiwe Dana’s “Mayine.” While the videos may appear disheartening at first (and I do have questions about the former’s reason for the cutting down the tree, the depiction of violence in general, and the film’s meaning within a larger […]

Otherworldly Videos: Evolve: The Series + Room 9

Here are two web series, one set in New York, the other in South Africa: Written and directed by Kia T. Barbee, Evolve: The Series is about a young teenage girl, Donia Reyes, who on her 16th birthday is developing supernatural powers (including “super strength, forcefield, enhanced senses, super agility, telekinetic and telepathic powers“) and her […]

Otherworldy Videos: So Divine — Saidah Baba Talibah, Vodun, YC The Cynic

Saidah Baba Talibah – “High” Donate to her Pledge Music fund for her next album, RedBlack&Blue (“RedBlack&Blue is a journey into the multitude of emotions dealing with the three most important ladies of my life; my mother, my daughter and my sister under the mystical, magical and spiritual guidance of my totem animals; The Robin […]

Otherworldy Videos: Captain T and T

Captain T and T Written, directed and produced by married duo Christopher and Leizell Guiness, this short film is about a Trinidadian man who recalls his younger days as six-year-old “Thin Foot” when he experimented to find what kind of superhero powers he had. Learning through these trials gives him a chance to “become” who […]