One of my favorite videos is the one for Yahzarah’s “The Tickler (Daddy Go Faster).” The director of the video is Tchaiko Omawale and besides being a music video director, she also directed a few speculative short films that you might enjoy. Watch them below: “Sita” – An short experimental fantasy about a fairy who […]
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Tchaiko OmawaleDirected by Gary Land, Phobos stars Victor Grant and is about a young astronaut trying to find the will to survive after crashing onto a distant planet. Land also directed this Ghede dance video with Russell Ferguson. Christina De Middel‘s video for her photography series, The Afronauts, based on the 1964 pace program started in […]
Read More Otherworldly Videos: The Afronaut“You’re mission is not complete until you funk with mission Katdelic” “D.O.T.M. (Dance on the Mothership)” with a guest appearance from George Clinton. “The One” with another George Clinton cameo.
Read More Otherworldly Videos: RonKat Spearman/KatdelicI found out about Oji (Oji El) and The Ascension team on Some Otha Ship’s (Georgia Anne Muldrow and Declaime) website. Oji El wrote, scored and animated the music and videos, which are filled with a lot of symbolism and are quite trippy. You can listen to their latest album, Mental Treasure Hunt, here. “The Gift […]
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Oji and The Ascension TeamPhotographer and filmmaker Alan Spearman of The Commercial Appeal, has two short films on his website about life in Memphis. The first is “As I Am,” which features Chris Dean and his community’s stories of survival amidst poverty in Memphis, and the second, “April,” of a girl named Faith and a woman named Hattie Mae […]
Read More Otherworldly Videos: The Surreality of SurvivalLast weekend Tunde premiered his video for “Brown Boy.”
Read More Otherworldy Videos: Tunde OlaniranLiving in a world where there is an increasing usage of drones, it forces you to wonder how machines are and will be used to track, arrest and even kill people here and abroad, and the ethics behind using them. Below are two sci-fi films that face these concerns: The Raven – Chris Black possesses […]
Read More Otherwordly Videos: The All-Seeing Eye of AuthorityAfter Hurricane Sandy, I am treating myself and everyone to some music from the Jacksons family for Halloween. When we think of Halloween and scary music videos, the first thought may be Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” but the Jacksons have dabbled into a few other scary videos. By the way, read two of my Frankenstein posts […]
Read More A Jacksons’ Halloween…..Romi Anauel and The Soldiers of Ra – “Take a Moment” Mirror-image merging and superimposed images make for one trippy video.
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Romi AnauelHere are some videos I viewed via Nafuna TV: Synik – “Sin City” Roki featuring Diskord – “Mativenga”
Read More Otherworldly Videos: Beaming In From Zimbabwe
Sherese Francis 