BlackART Roots
The popularization of black art and culture is a story with many chapters. In these selections an attempt is made to reflect on those modes of art we claim as black and our reasons for doing so. So often removed or ignored from the popular lore, it seems a task we must take on to document our own place in the histories of the many forms of beauty we help evolve, dance, photography, filmmaking, all forms of visual media, and the list continues. Here is a selection for our consideration and constant reflection, our collection of the past for the sake of the future.
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Volume I ~ Disc 3: Welcome To Nollywood (DVD) 56 mins
Welcome To Nollywood is an engaging behind-the-scenes look at the Nigerian video film industry, Nollywood.
Free To Dance: Go For What You Know 60 mins
A three-part documentary that chronicles the crucial role African-American choregraphers and dancers played in the development of modern dance as an American art form.
Free To Dance: Steps Of The Gods 60 mins
Katherine Dunham's year in the Caribbean, during the 1930s was both an anthropological field trip and a journey in search of her own roots.
Free To Dance: What Do You Dance 60 mins
"What Do You Dance?" begins the story of the evolution of a uniquely American form of movement with African...
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Burning in the Sun [Remix] 11mins
Daniel Dembele returns home to Mali with an idea, cheap renewable energy for the masses, can he make his solar panel social business stick in West Africa?
This War At Home 7mins
In a letter to a namesake uncle lost in Vietnam author Ivan Sanchez ponders the value of war, and connects this generational void to the deterioration of his Bronx neighborhood.
Never Will Be Forgotten: Oscar Grant Tribute 8mins
Youth producers at Youth Movement Records reflect on the injustices they witness in the aftermath of the police shooting of young Oscar Grant.
Remix: In Search of Our Fathers
Filmmaker Marco Williams documents his journey to finding his biological father.
Perceptions Shattered 51' 26
A series of audio stories produced by youth producers in partnership with Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and WBEZ Chicago working with a variety of youth producers.
Black Filmmakers On Film: Byron Hurt 23mins 34secs
Filmmaker Noland walker interviews fellow contemporary Byron Hurt.
NMI 2006 ~ The Other Side 3mins 16secs
Ever wondered what would happen if you kept throwing a tennis ball at a wall?
NMI 2006 ~Black Hole 2 mins
A video-textural exploration of the physics of well-being as it relates to blackness.
Breaking Silences 10mins
A discussion of the alarming rate of domestic violence against women of color on college campuses.
Ruff N' Tumble In Nigeria 9mins 33secs
Decade-long CNN journalist Carol Pineau profiles a successful entrepreneur in Lagos, Nigeria.
Made In Lesotho 5mins 36secs
Jennifer Chen runs a socially conscious production factory in Lesotho that ships to global businesses like Footlocker and The Gap.
NMI 2007 ~ Blues People 2mins 47secs
As part of NBPC's 2007 New Media Institute, producers around the nation convened in Jackson Mississippi to document the blues through new media.