Cyrus Moussavi

Poet, musician, visual artist, and Afrofuturist Moor Mother roams a hallucinatory Mojave Desert alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Moor Mother visits the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra HQ and plays with jazz luminaries and elders, including Henry “The Skipper” Franklin, Michael Session, and Maia.

A divine vision inspired Hubert Taylor to pick up a home video camera and spend decades documenting the life of his Georgia hometown. His gaze keeps returning to his own father, the gospel singer Brother Theotis Taylor, whose legendary falsetto took him to Carnegie Hall. With co-director and music archivist Cyrus Moussavi, he unearths an unseen community archive and shapes it into a moving meditation on art, family, community, and legacy.

Lonnie Holley, a "self-taught African American artist" and dimensional traveler, attempts to sneak off the slave ship America.

Raw Music International followed the musicians in Odessa, who had experienced the days earlier this year when pro-democracy protests led to the impeachment of the Russian-leading president, to the days when the fighting hit home this year in the Black Sea port. The documentary shows two of the three artists shifting to help people affected as the conflict escalates, such as bringing medical supplies to those harmed in the fighting.