Kahlil Joseph

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kahlil Joseph

Kendrick Lamar

A 15-minute piece on view at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, "m.A.A.d." is hypnotic: a stirring, cinematic tribute to the city of Compton, and a beguiling non-linear paean to everyday moments of life, death and magic — all set to the textured, often abstract lyrics of Compton-born rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Lemonade

Dikayl Rimmasch, Melina Matsoukas

Beyoncé, Jay-Z

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.

Until the Quiet Comes

Kahlil Joseph

Solomon Gibbs, Storyboard P.

Set to a track from Flying Lotus’s album and shot primarily in Nickerson Gardens, this short features the astonishingly beautiful dancing of Storyboard P. Winner of Sundance’s Special Jury Award for short film.

Sampha: Process

Kahlil Joseph

Sampha Sisay, Liran Nathan

Process is a striking, avant-garde portrait of Sampha using documentary-style footage to depict his roots in Morden, South London, and Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Arcade Fire - The Reflektor Tapes

Kahlil Joseph

Win Butler, Richard Reed Parry

Arcade Fire’s first feature film is called 'The Reflektor Tapes'. The project is “a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history.”

The Mirror Between Us

Kahlil Joseph

Nicole Beharie, Dan'ee Doty

Two young women embark on a dream-like adventure through the islands of the Maldives after an event turned both their worlds upside down.

Music Is My Mistress

Kahlil Joseph

Tracee Ellis Ross, Jesse Williams

Music is My Mistress casts music herself as the central character of an unfolding drama across cultures, space, and time.

BLKNWS

Kahlil Joseph

Amandla Stenberg

A conceptual and collaborative approach to contemporary journalism and entrepreneurship. It uses media as an ongoing work of art in the form of a two-channel video installation. The project explores the dimensionality of the news media format, interrogating the possibilities of truth while being aware that truth is also the foundation of ideology. News can be more than just current events and human interest stories. It can be a non-linear event, such as in the way Sesame Street delivers information to toddlers or ESPN to sports fans. BLKNWS is for people who have had enough of politicians, pundits, talking heads, oligarchs, and fear mongering.

Wildcat

Kahlil Joseph

Filmed in Grayson, Oklahoma, Wildcat meditatively combines documentation of a Black rodeo subculture with an abstract portrait of Joseph’s aunt who helped found the event.

Utopia

Nicolas Winding Refn, Harmony Korine

Travis Scott, Rick Rubin

Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of his highly anticipated upcoming album "UTOPIA." A surreal and psychedelic journey, uniting a collective of visionary filmmakers from around the world in a kaleidoscopic exploration of human experience and the power of soundscapes.

Black Mary

Kahlil Joseph

Commissioned by Tate Modern, Black Mary beautifully fuses Joseph’s documentary, performance, fiction, and music videos in a single, breathtaking presentation of the singer Alice Smith.

Fly Paper

Kahlil Joseph

A rich and polyphonic portrait of black art and culture in New York City