Movie Details
Theatrical Release:April 2nd, 2017
Original Language:English
Production Companies:TNEG
Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death (2017)
Audience Score
DirectorArthur Jafa
WriterArthur Jafa
Plot
A reflection on Jafa's desire to craft a "black cinema" that is responsive to the "existential, political, and spiritual dimensions" of Black life. Comprised of found footage sampled from films, newscasts, sporting events, music videos, and citizen videos, all of it downloaded from the Internet, the clips have been woven together and set to Kanye West's anthem "Ultralight Beam." Together the images and music make for an intense, poignant meditation on African American life in the twentieth-century. This history is also the history, by necessity, of racism and prejudice.
