This essay about the policing of young black men, foreshadows the 1992 outcome of the trial which acquitted policeman directly involved in the brutal beating of a black motorist, Rodney King, was made as my graduate school thesis in the film school at San Francisco State University. It also underscores a series of escalating gripping actions and murders of black men and women in America-by police or individuals policing black lives...that would provoke the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was nearly orphaned until I received a request from a scholar looking to write about video tape imagery & justice-just recently. This is the best result of the rescue of footage locked on an obsolete medium- hi-8. Boots Riley, one of the young men interviewed on the grassy knoll has become an important voice in Oakland and across the globe as an activist and cutting edge musician.
Dough-crazed mercenaries Sammy and Klaus are on a mission to escort the seriously ill prime minister of a South American country that has just been taken over by the rebels to his buddies over the border.
Featuring Arnold and Ahneva from Wendy Clarke's One on One video series, this video dialogue deeply connects the pair through discussion of Black brother and sisterhood.
ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) is a multimedia performance collaboration created by artist David Wojnarowicz and composer/musician Ben Neill in 1989.
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age.
Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when their daughter moved out.
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson.
Reiko, a female college student, was looking outside with her newly purchased telescope. She bought it impulsively, but since she had no intention of using it, she looked around the neighborhood.
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Have you watched No Justice . . . No Peace/Black, Male ImMediate yet? What did you think about it?
