2017-04-02 • 0h 8min
A reflection on Jafa's desire to craft a "black cinema" that is responsive to the "existential, political, and spiritual dimensions" of Black life. Comprised of found footage sampled from films, newscasts, sporting events, music videos, and citizen videos, all of it downloaded from the Internet, the clips have been woven together and set to Kanye West's anthem "Ultralight Beam." Together the images and music make for an intense, poignant meditation on African American life in the twentieth-century. This history is also the history, by necessity, of racism and prejudice.

Run Lola Run

Ashes and Diamonds

Oppenheimer

Joker

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Pulp Fiction

Titanic

Ex Machina

Inside Out

Inception

The Shawshank Redemption

Interstellar

Forrest Gump

Extraction

PK

12 Angry Men

American Beauty

Django Unchained

Back to the Future

Parasite