Otherworldly Videos: UltraSol Trailer

UltraSol – Love and Enduring Perception South African director Phetogo Tshepo Mahasha‘s trailer for latest animated short film. The trailer alone looks epic!

Modern Griots Review: Afro-Cinematique at ImageNation

Although at last night’s Afro-Cinematique showcase at ImageNation for five award-winning short films, which film student Lauren Elizabeth Brown curated, seemed to have no common theme, I would like to suggest that of the relationship between contact and alienation. Despite some technical difficulties, I was glad to see these independent films were available and the […]

Otherworldly Videos: Mami Wata Films (Lady in the Water/Nkiru)

The legend of Mami Wata is one that has traveled from the shores of different countries in Africa to the shores of shores of the different countries all over the world in which the African diapsora lives. The media production company 37th State has produced a short documentary and short film that explores the figures […]

Otherworldly Videos: Tchaiko Omawale

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 […]

Otherworldly Videos: The Afronaut

Directed 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 […]

Modern Griots Review: Zetwal (Twinkl)

Can poetry be fuel for a spaceship? One man, Robert Saint-Rose, from the Caribbean island of Martinique believed so. The inspiring documentary film, Zetwal, which means “stars,” or “twinkl” from the film, in creole, follows the journey of the Caribbean folk hero who builds a spaceship in 1974 on a mission to be the first […]

Otherworldly Videos: The Surreality of Survival

Photographer 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 […]