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    Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death

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    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.

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    History

    2017

    Ashes and Diamonds
    1:43:39

    Ashes and Diamonds

    MovieDramaWar

    3rd October 1958

    Oppenheimer
    3:01:52

    Oppenheimer

    MovieDramaHistory

    19th July 2023

    Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    2:42:37

    Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    MovieComedyDrama

    24th July 2019

    Ex Machina
    1:48:49

    Ex Machina

    MovieDramaScience Fiction

    21st January 2015

    Inside Out
    1:35:25

    Inside Out

    MovieAnimationFamily

    17th June 2015

    Inception
    2:28:41

    Inception

    MovieActionScience Fiction

    15th July 2010

    The Shawshank Redemption
    2:22:37

    The Shawshank Redemption

    MovieDramaCrime

    23rd September 1994

    Forrest Gump
    2:22:23

    Forrest Gump

    MovieComedyDrama

    23rd June 1994

    Extraction
    1:56:40

    Extraction

    MovieActionThriller

    23rd April 2020

    PK
    2:33:46

    PK

    MovieComedyDrama

    18th December 2014

    12 Angry Men
    1:37:32

    12 Angry Men

    MovieDrama

    10th April 1957

    American Beauty
    2:02:18

    American Beauty

    MovieDrama

    15th September 1999

    Django Unchained
    2:45:51

    Django Unchained

    MovieDramaWestern

    25th December 2012

    Back to the Future
    1:56:57

    Back to the Future

    MovieAdventureComedy

    3rd July 1985

    Parasite
    2:13:49

    Parasite

    MovieComedyThriller

    30th May 2019

    Run Lola Run
    1:21:55

    Run Lola Run

    MovieActionDrama

    20th August 1998

    Joker
    2:02:57

    Joker

    MovieCrimeThriller

    1st October 2019

    Pulp Fiction
    2:34:29

    Pulp Fiction

    MovieThrillerCrime

    10th September 1994

    Titanic
    3:14:10

    Titanic

    MovieDramaRomance

    18th November 1997

    Interstellar
    2:49:58

    Interstellar

    MovieAdventureDrama

    5th November 2014