Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 2006 • United States
Ulysses Jenkins looks at the Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans through the lens of the Planet X doomsday myth and a proclamation of coming disaster to African Americans issued by avant-garde jazz prophet Sun Ra.
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Dark Matters
Directed by Monique Walton • 2010 • United States
Starring Sade JonesA woman obsessed with extraterrestrials and UFO sightings begins to question her own ethnic, cultural, and planetary origins.
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The Becoming Box
Directed by Monique Walton • 2011 • United States
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a mysterious box appears in the backyard of three siblings—a portal that may offer an escape from their surroundings.
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Public Service Announcement
Directed by Athi-Patra Ruga • 2014 • South Africa
A stunning cosmic kaleidoscope of fluorescent, pixelated nature imagery is set to a dryly satirical lesson on the totalitarian, matriarchal political structure of the fictional republic of Azania.
