Voirfilm Black

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

The film is inspired by the terella—a small magnetized model ball representing the Earth, used by scientists since the late sixteenth century. Three centuries later, in the year of the birth of cinema, Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland used the terella to study the aurora borealis, while in the 1930s, Bertolt Brecht wrote in exile: “In the dark times / Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing / About the dark times.” Resembling a terella, the dark planet depicted on the screen is surrounded by pulsating light, invoking both hope and despair.

Skateboarders, surfers and cyclists push it to the limit in this extreme sports program that features some of the gnarliest stunts, craziest crashes and wildest rides ever caught on film. No wave is too tall, no stairs are too steep and no mountains are too high for the daredevil athletes in this film to tackle.

Nikki, a sound recordist, picks up a strange sound whilst filming on location in a forest. After a disturbing encounter, she wakes up alone, confused and filthy in her house. Her only chance at finding out what happened to her, lies within her sound recorder.

A traumatic event in a boy’s life underlies a surprising answer to a guidance counselor’s question. This is a simple, yet powerful, largely animated work that addresses the sad reality for Black people in America in a white supremacist world.

Blackberry Smoke's stop at Bob Weir's TRI Studios is chronicled in the band's new DVD, Blackberry Smoke with Bob Weir: An Evening at TRI, featuring the Southern rock ensemble collaborating with the Dead guitarist on a number of tunes in the intimate space. The DVD includes Weir joining Blackberry Smoke on tunes like "Deep Elem Blues," "Big Boss Man," "Ramble on Rose," "Big River," "Promised Land," "Up on Cripple Creek" and a finale of "The Weight."

The well-worn trope of the “intrepid white explorer attempts to explain the ways of African tribes” is subverted in a masterful fashion by Horace Ové in The Black Safari. We follow Yemi Ajibade, Merdel Jordine, Bloke Modisane, Horace Ové, and Douglas Botting as they go on an expedition across the Liverpool-Leeds canal in search of the English community and the strange cultures that they currently involve themselves in, all while attempting to find the centre of England. The imagery of the Queen of Spades, the boat that the explorers travel on, complete with the sound of African drums going through these towns in middle England feels provocative, especially as baffled locals look on in astonishment. The little seen The Black Safari makes for compelling viewing; it is a biting satire that never fails to raise a smile.

Character-driven satirical drama about a young, extraordinarily intellectual "black activist" wannabe who is discovered as the political critic sending out anonymous emails that criticize today's black leadership. Instead of holding it against him, the black leader who finds him out hires his worst critic as a second adviser.

When the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise set sail in 2013 to protest the first ever oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, none of the people on board could have known what was coming. Seized at gunpoint by Russian special forces, the 'Arctic 30' were thrust into headlines all over the world, facing up to 15 years in prison and finding themselves at the centre of a bitter international dispute.

Two ex-con brothers become the unlikely heroes in a "Small Town with Big Secrets"

Black Daddy is unadulterated storytelling from the black father's point of view because it is often overlooked and the assumption is that black fathers are not involved in their children's lives. Black Daddy: The Movie is a passion project covering a space that is near to our hearts; black fatherhood. I followed the lives of a few like-minded men as they told compelling stories of the joy, pain and the complexity of what it means to be a black father in America.

'How many famous Black women can you name who aren't either sportswomen or entertainers?' Mostly the folks of Liverpool draw a blank—making the point that too little is known or taught about Black women.

NOBODY KNOWS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK MORMONS is an award-winning documentary about African American Latter-day Saints. Few people, Mormon and non-Mormon, are aware that there has been an African American presence in the LDS Church from its earliest days, that the vanguard company of Mormon pioneers included three “colored servants” (slaves), and that subsequent pioneer companies included both freeborn Blacks (such as Jane Manning and Isaac James) and enslaved Blacks, such as Biddy Smith Mason and Elizabeth Flake. This documentary talks about that little-known legacy, and confronts the hard issues which surfaced in the most turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement, when the Church continued to restrict its priesthood from those of African descent (a policy put into place in 1852). It discusses the context for that restriction, and how it was finally lifted. It also addresses the challenges of modern Black Mormon pioneers.

This documentary chronicles the groundbreaking career of attorney Johnnie Cochran, from his beginnings as a Los Angeles city deputy attorney to his high-profile cases defending celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and O.J. Simpson. Interviews and archival footage reveals how Cochran also championed the civil rights of ordinary Americans and helped pave the way for other African American lawyers to make their mark.

A young black recruit is shown the world open to him as a Navy officer

A dying black veteran contemplates his time on the battlefields of World War One, the moments that changed him forever.

"Refashioning the intent of footage lifted from an online Taiwanese news outlet, this cautionary tale is about the inexplicable sea - a poetic tour through the obsession to conquer the Great Whale to the current crisis of the migrants fleeing war." - Peggy Ahwesh

Award-winning comedian Matt Okine is black and likes chicken... but he's also chicken of some seafood. During what was supposed to be a routine fishing trip with his dad, Matt comes face-to-face with ghost fishermen, killer jellyfish, and giant squid, tackling his gravest fears, all in the hope of getting a little breakfast.

Magnum photographer Martin Parr returns to working with moving images in this wonderfully engaging documentary about Teddy Gray’s sweet factory in Dudley in the West Midlands. Established in 1826, Teddy Gray’s has always been a family owned and run business. Five generations have worked and contributed towards the business of keeping the traditional, hand-made methods of sweet making alive. The film is part of the Black Country Stories body of work commissioned by Multistory to document life in the Black Country.