Ja'Tovia Gary

The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

Ja'Tovia Gary

Ja'Tovia Gary

Filmed on location in Harlem and in Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, this multi-textured cinematic poem meditates on the bodily integrity and creative virtuosity of black women.

An Ecstatic Experience

Ja'Tovia Gary

A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.

Cakes Da Killa: No Homo

Ja'Tovia Gary

Cakes Da Killa

An electrifying portrait of a young artist determined to live life on his own terms. Born Rashard Bradshaw, Cakes Da Killa is a 22 year old hip hop artist. As an openly gay man he is not your run of the mill rapper, but he just might be your new favorite.

Giverny I (Négresse Impériale)

Ja'Tovia Gary

This filmic collage, shot on location in Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France, aims to examine the precarious nature of Black women’s bodily integrity, the ethics of care as resistance work, and how class position shapes the contours of violence. Set against the backdrop of the West's continued global imperialist campaigns and its historical artistic canon, this experimental video features a mélange of HD video, archival footage, and analog animation to assert an oppositional gaze in the re-telling of modern history.