Projects
Golden Chain
In the distant future, a Nigerian space station orbits an artificial pinpoint of matter in a remote galaxy. This Afrofuturist collaboration between filmmaker Adebukola Bodunrin and graphic novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels reimagines the Yoruba creation tale as a cosmic journey, blending traditional motifs with hard science fiction.
Distributed by Vtape
13:20 | 2016
Gather + Listen
An animation that captures the subtle rhythms of an owambe, a Nigerian street party, where hearts begin to beat as one in collective joy.
Looping Animation
4:39 | 2014
Until One Day
Until One Day is a series of animated “apocalypse portraits” born from a simple question: How do you imagine the world will end? Participants’ answers are transformed into looping animations, each one darkly whimsical, then filmed frame by frame as the participant holds their own portrait just out of view. The project becomes a playful yet haunting study of how we fantasize about catastrophe — blurring the line between tragedy, imagination, and spectacle.
EVEN WHEN LIFE IS SAD, PEOPLE STILL HAVE A GOOD TIME
A partially destroyed fragment of Powell and Pressburger's 1951 Technicolor dream film Tales of Hoffman, becomes a site of a ruptured fantasy
16mm Film
3:46 | 2005
IT'S HARD TO RECOGNIZE SPEECH/ IT'S HARD TO WRECK A NICE BEACH
A playful meditation on language, society, and adaptation, using pixilation, long-exposure photography, and digital manipulation to reimagine memory.
15:30 | 2007
Client Projects
"The Ooli Moves" is a piece from Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble's acclaimed avant-garde jazz album, "Intergalactic Beings." The album is inspired by Octavia Butler's influential sci-fi novel series, "Xenogenesis." This afrofuturist music video explores themes of repulsion and desire in its interpretation of the hypnotic mating dance of the mysterious alien race known as the Ooli.
Commissioned by KCET for the Emmy award winning documentary series "Artbound" Portrait of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre. It’s more than just a building or studio. It's a beacon of black ownership, a means in which to share a powerful message about race and society, and a necessary part of their community.
What if the stories L.A. told about itself relegated you to the margins? This episode explores two underground guidebooks -- The Negro Travelers' Green Book and The Address Book -- that reveal the hidden geographies many Angelinos had to navigate, exposing Los Angeles as a place of coded segregation and resistance.