Voirfilm Black

An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". Race for Space gives life to Sun Ra’s claim to have been abducted by aliens who schooled him in the radical potential of music. While working as a piano man in Chicago in 1943, Sun Ra is contacted by Morpheus who offers him a choice of two destinies. Flashing forward to the 1969 moon landing, Neil Armstrong discovers that outer space has already been colonized by Sun Ra and his intergalactic ensemble, The Arkestra. At stake in this episode is the cultural politics implicit in the territorialization of outer space, both as a geography and a virtual field of possibility.

An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". We are the Robots re-imagines the iconic scene in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), where sci-entists use a synthesizer keyboard to communicate with an alien mothership. In Soda_Jerk’s revision of these events, Kraftwerk play sequences from their own music and the mothership responds with frag-ments of tracks that have sampled Kraftwerk. This jam session– between the original and sampled ver-sions of Kraftwerk’s music–explores the impact of German electronic music on Afrofuturist sonic culture.

An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". Destination Planet Rock maps the intergalactic legacy of Sun Ra and George Clinton in the sci-fi futurism of early hip-hop. Set in 1974 in the South Bronx, the episode be-gins in a neighborhood center where Sun Ra is explain-ing his ideas about the intersection of race, myth and outer space. The three future originators of hip-hop—DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash—are abducted and transported across the galaxy to Planet Rock, where they are schooled in the alien language of turntablism.

An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". This episode considers the politics implicit in Public Enemy’s claim that we’re already living [in] armaged-don. It begins with the discovery of an ancient stone crosshairs at an archeological site in Egypt. Sixty years later a giant alien mothership emerges from a mena-cing cloud over New York City, hijacking President Ron-ald Reagan’s TV statement in order to transmit a pirate broadcast from Chuck D, Flavor Flav and Sun Ra. Like Sun Ra’s mantra that ‘it’s after the end of the world’, Public Enemy invoke armageddon to insist upon the critical moment in which we already live.

This video was released way in 1992, the year of the Black Hawk Down affair in Somalia, the Rodney King riots, Magic Johnson and Arthur Ashe getting AIDS, Spike Lee's Malcolm X, and many, many other historic events.

Shot on lo-fi digital video, Tommy visits his father on his farm in Chiang Dao, Thailand. The farm is slowly consumed by the spirit realm, revealing itself to Tommy. His father appears as a medium.

"Slick-Fingered Mag must he captured, or I will know the reason why!" These are the proud words of Detective Brown, as he prepares to go in search of the elusive "Mag." He packs his traveling bag and leaves it open upon the sofa in his room; then goes downstairs to eat his breakfast. "Slick-Fingered Mag," seeing the front door of Brown's home ajar, enters and makes a sneak upstairs. She carries a bag of the same character as Brown's. She gathers up all the valuables she finds handy, not overlooking some of Mrs. Brown's choicest jewels. Hearing sounds of approaching footsteps, she becomes excited and empties the "swag" into Brown's bag, supposing it to he her own, and with it, escapes from the house, leaving her own bag behind her. Mrs. Brown, placing some clean linen in her husband's grip, sees the female apparel.

The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

Black Magic was one of the greatest double dutch teams ever. This PBS primetime special shows the intricacies of competition and their attempt to try and beat their own world record for fastest speed. A film by David Hoffman.

Outside Wall Street, who knows BlackRock, the most powerful asset manager on the planet? Investigation of a discreet but influential actor in world economic and political life. If money does not make you happy, it undoubtedly opens the doors of power. A maxim that the asset management group BlackRock, with its 6,000 billion US dollars spent, or more than twice the GDP of France, knows well. Companies, governments and central banks: the sprawling business has been expanding its influence in all directions, since its creation in 1988 by Larry Fink. The strength of this American management giant lies in the billions of dollars entrusted to it by its clients, most of whom are big fish in finance: multinationals, financial institutions and investment and pension funds.

2010, 24:39 min, color, silent, HD video

Choirmaster Gareth Malone travels to Blackburn, one of the areas hardest hit by Covid-19, to stage a concert with local musical talent that brings the whole town together.

Women in love features black women talking about their public and private lives. Their discussion of families, lovers, and the way they move through society is as entertaining as it is informative.

Black Five is filmed around Carnforth station in Lancashire, a location which had been the setting for the archetypal railway romance, David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945) over 20 years earlier.

This documentary presents clips from black films from 1929 through 1957.

Live from Sydney to Vegas is the second official DVD from The Black Eyed Peas. It includes two concerts from their Monkey Business Tour, bonus features and innovative technology enabling the viewer to switch back and forth between Sydney and Las Vegas.

Having waited 49 years, the diehard fans of the Chicago Blackhawks would have to agonize a few moments more: Was Patrick Kane's shot really in the net? Had the Stanley Cup finally returned to Chicago? In this case, great things came to those who waited. Kane's shot 4:06 into overtime had indeed entered the net, giving the Blackhawks their first Cup since 1961 and touching off a celebration that moved from the ice of Philadelphia's Wachovia Center to the jam-packed streets of downtown Chicago to the cities and towns around the globe that Hawks players call home. This unforgettable moment and many more from five games critical to the Blackhawks championship run have now been collected in one place: the Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Champions Special Edition Box Set