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Brooklyn Boheme (Nelson George)_ Toronto Screening
My friend Wan originally put me on to the trailer for this film a few months ago while looking at films to potentially show at the Manifesto Film Fest. For the last few years I have been obsessed with movements of various sorts and how they happen, specifically the Harlem Renaissance. So when I saw […]
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Sikligar Documentary Screening_ Toronto
If you’re in Toronto on Friday, Sept 30th and you’re not going to see James Blake at the Phoenix (like I am), you should be going to see Sikligar, a documentary by Mandeep Sethi about the Sikligar Sikhs, the black-ironsmiths and weapons makers of the Khalsa Army of the Sikhs. The film is premiering in […]
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5 Hours with Woody_ Eliot Rausch
Sometimes I watch what people do and I pray for the opportunity to do the same. This guy Eliot Rausch makes some of the realist shit on the internet. Beautifully shot short documentaries about the complexity of people. I first saw his work about a year ago, I stumbled upon Last Minutes of Oden, a […]
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Wasteland_ Manifesto Movie Night (Toronto)
I might not be able to get to the Manifesto Movie Night tonight but It should be stellar. The funny thing is that when I was watching this trailer for Wasteland (one of the features tonight) I realized that I have been to visit the people in Rio where this was shot, I’ve met the […]
Relentless_ Andy Okoroafor
Andy Okoroafor is a Nigerian born filmmaker living in Paris. He creates images in film and in other mediums. He is the founder of Clam Magazine. These two videos are an introduction to him and his film Relentless which is about Lagos, Nigeria and features performance by Nigerian musician Nneka. I haven’t see it, but […]
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ZAR_ Vincent Moon
I stumbled across this video while searching for something else on vimeo. Done by a film artist named Vincent Moon. I don’t know much about him but his visual sense and his choice of subject reminds me of a classic style of artistic film-making usually classified as “foreign” what ever that means. From a series […]
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