Laura Nicole Haldane

BLACK MOTHER | Official Trailer from Khalik Allah on Vimeo.

Black Mother is an audio-visual love letter to Jamaica.

Part film, part baptism, in Black Mother director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises and tranquil countryside, Allah introduces us to a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home. Their candid testimonies create a polyphonic symphony, set against a visual prayer of indelible portraiture. Thoroughly immersed between the sacred and profane, Black Mother channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present.

KENZO Presents Music is my Mistress from Brian Phillips Image on Vimeo.

Oya rise of the Orisas - African Superhero Movie from Nosa Nedion on Vimeo.

Watch the next instalment in the shared universe of the West African deities called Orisha, Yemoja Rise of the Orisha at riseoftheorisha.com.

This project is based on the inspired by the anceint african deities known as Orixa and traditions of Yoruba people as well as Candomble, Santeria and Umbanda among others.

THE SYNOPSIS

Disconnected from the natural essence of Orisha. Fuelled by hate, war and destruction. This world teeters on chaos.

This world needs change. This world needs Oya: Orisha of the hurricane, goddess of the wind. Step into her world, as Oya goes on a mission to stop a lunatic, intent on killing an innocent. If change is to come. Evil must be defeated. The Orisha must rise.

Ibeyi- Oya: Live Session from Flex on Vimeo.

What does House feel like? from Thee Debauchery Ball on Vimeo.

William Parker "Trail of Tears Continuum (1492-2019)" in collaboration with Arts For Art at The Kitchen (March 7, 2019) from The Kitchen on Vimeo.

Part of the IDENTITY: FREEDOM series.

FESTAC ’77 and Other Pan-African Festivals with Marilyn Nance, Haki R. Madhubuti, Dominique Malaquais, moderated by Somi Umolu from Logan Center Exhibitions on Vimeo.

Saturday, October 14, 2017 Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago This panel explores the major Pan-African festivals of arts and culture that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. Scholar and curator Dominique Malaquais shares her research and curatorial work on festivals in Senegal, Algeria, and Nigeria. Reflecting on the impact of Pan-Africanism on the development of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago and the US, scholar, author, and educator Haki R. Madhubuti and photographer Marilyn Nance share their personal experiences at FESTAC ’77, the largest Pan-African festival, held in Lagos, Nigeria.

En attendant Bárðarbunga from François Quévillon on Vimeo.

Waiting for Bárðarbunga, procedural audiovisual installation, 2015. Initiated in August 2014 in response to the alerts and warnings about Bárðarbunga's eruption, this generative video installation examines the monitoring and transformation of volcanic areas. It consists of a database of hundreds of videos which are presented according to a probabilistic system influenced by data coming from the sensors of the computer that runs the installation. The work has an unpredictable unfolding and its conclusion remains uncertain as the system's monitoring influences the course of events it presents, and vice versa. francois-quevillon.com/w/?p=611 En attendant Bárðarbunga, dispositif audiovisuel procédural, 2015. Je me trouvais en Islande en août 2014 alors que le volcan sous-glaciaire Bárðarbunga allait entrer en éruption. M’inspirant de la couverture médiatique et des technologies utilisées pour prévoir et suivre l'évolution de catastrophes naturelles, j'ai procédé à la captation de systèmes de surveillance du territoire, de sa transformation due à l’activité volcanique et des manifestations de l’énergie géothermique. Le dispositif est constitué de centaines de boucles vidéo présentées en fonction d’un modèle statistique qui intègre des données provenant des capteurs de l’ordinateur qui les diffuse. Affichées sur un moniteur afin d’évoquer les mesures d’instruments utilisés en volcanologie, leurs fluctuations mènent parfois à des espaces contemplatifs, d’autres fois à des rafales audiovisuelles chargées d’énergie. La pièce se développe de manière imprévisible alors que le relevé du système et le cours des événements qu’il présente s’influencent réciproquement. francois-quevillon.com/w/?p=610&lang=fr

Yemoja Rise of the Orisha: Official trailer from Nosa Nedion on Vimeo.

A new chapter in the 1st African superhero universe.

Watch Yemoja Rise of the Orisha at riseoftheorisha.com.

Starring Symara Templeman, Derek Oppong, Yvonne Hays and Orwi Ameh. Cinematography by Laja Pelumi Score by Kenny Seymour

From director Nosa Igbinedion comes the 2nd installment of the Rise of the Orisha series. Set in the exciting new shared fictional universe made up of a pantheon of African deities known as Orisha, which was established in the highly successful and widely viewed short ‘Oya Rise of the Orisha’ . This chapter focuses on the Orisha of the ocean, the mother whose children are fish, Yemoja. Yemoja: Rise of the Orisha is created by Nosa Igbinedion.It is a 6 part mini-series that follows a neurotic junior doctor called Amina, who has her life thrown into turmoil when a politicians son dies under her supervision. Things get complicated when the water goddess Yemoja possesses Amina. Now haunted by mystical visions, Amina must find a way to clear her name and save her sanity before its too late.

The Rise of the Orisha series is inspired by traditions of the Yoruba religion which is followed around the world in the form of Ifa, Candomble, Umbanda, Santeria and Lucumi.

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Oya rise of the Orisas - African Superhero Movie from Nosa Nedion on Vimeo.

Watch the next instalment in the shared universe of the West African deities called Orisha, Yemoja Rise of the Orisha at riseoftheorisha.com.

This project is based on the inspired by the anceint african deities known as Orixa and traditions of Yoruba people as well as Candomble, Santeria and Umbanda among others.

THE SYNOPSIS

Disconnected from the natural essence of Orisha. Fuelled by hate, war and destruction. This world teeters on chaos.

This world needs change. This world needs Oya: Orisha of the hurricane, goddess of the wind. Step into her world, as Oya goes on a mission to stop a lunatic, intent on killing an innocent. If change is to come. Evil must be defeated. The Orisha must rise.

Gordon Parks — Half Past Autumm from Chester Higgins on Vimeo.

Bufo Alvarius Reloaded - English version from Asaya Productions on Vimeo.

The film that you are about to see presents opinions of experts and therapists regarding the phenomenon of Bufo Alvarius and the psychedelic substance 5-MeO-DMT. The interviews were conducted for study purposes and as bonus material to the film BUFO ALVARIUS - THE UNDERGROUND SECRET. It is neither meant as a recommendation nor defense of the usage of this psychoactive substance. It is not suitable for viewers under 18 years of age.

TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (a desktop documentary) from Kevin B. Lee on Vimeo.

OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2015 Berlinale International Film Festival Critics Week; 2015 Rotterdam International Film Festival; 2014 Viennale International Film Festival; 2014 Cologne Unlimited Shorts Festival. More info at alsolikelife.com/premake Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014. But on YouTube one can already access an immense trove of production footage recorded by amateurs in locations where the film was shot, such as Utah, Texas, Detroit, Chicago, Hong Kong and mainland China. Transformers: the Premake turns 355 YouTube videos into a critical investigation of the global big budget film industry, amateur video making, and the political economy of images.

The Premake utilizes a “desktop documentary” technique that acknowledges the internet's role not only as a boundless repository of information but as a primary experience of reality. It creatively depicts the process in which we explore a deep web of images and data to reach moments of discovery and decisive action. In a blockbuster cinema culture rife with insipid remakes of franchise properties, The Premake presents a critical counter-image in which personalized digital media asks what Hollywood is really doing in the world.

Note: This is the complete version of TRANSFORMERS THE PREMAKE. The video will be also released online episodically as follows: