Jenn Nkiru

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Jenn Nkiru

Jenn Nkiru is a Nigerian-British artist and director. In 2020 she directed the critically acclaimed music video for Beyoncé's "Brown Skin Girl", which won the Best Music Video award at the 2021 Grammy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenn Nkiru, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Black Is KingBlack Is King · 2020
Black Is King
7.12020
MovieMusic
This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.
The Great NorthThe Great North · 2024
The Great North
2024
MovieDocumentary
Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples, cities, countries, buildings, movements, bodies and spaces(s) using a mixture of archive materials and new footage. There is little stillness as we are pushed and pulled through Black histories and communities across the city of Manchester and beyond. Nkiru has termed this filmmaking process “cosmic archeology”, and it is grounded in Afro-surrealism, experimental film and the Black arts movement.
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D ThyselfKamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself · 2019
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
2019
MovieMusicAnimation
The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.
Rebirth Is NecessaryRebirth Is Necessary · 2017
Rebirth Is Necessary
2017
Movie
Director Jenn Nkiru authors a personal and powerful exploration of blackness through piecing together dreamlike portraits with stunning archival footage that includes Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra and revolutionary organization the Black Panther Party.
En VogueEn Vogue · 2014
En Vogue
10.02014
MovieMusic
A high-concept, in-your-face experimental short showcasing the unique beauty, energy and exuberance of one of NYC's last underground subcultures: Voguing & Ballroom
Black to TechnoBlack to Techno · 2019
Black to Techno
5.52019
MovieDocumentary
BLACK TO TECHNO is a music documentary charting the anthropological, socio-economical, geopolitical roots of techno from Detroit and how it travelled and translated into becoming the soundtrack to the fall of the wall in Berlin.

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