Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1983 • United States
A video companion to a twenty-four-hour group performance organized by Ulysses Jenkins, DREAM CITY collages live music, poetry, and dance into a pulsating kaleidoscope of color and sound. Frequent Jenkins collaborators Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, and David Hammons appear, as do snippets of chess games, punk shows, and shots of the LA skyline—all set to a hypnotic free improvisation of saxophone, percussion, and voice.
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Without Your Interpretation
Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1983 • United States
Featuring the artist-filmmaker’s regular collaborators Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, this 1983 performance by Ulysses Jenkins issues a forceful condemnation of American indifference to the crises faced by the developing world.
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Self Divination
Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1989 • United States
The first part of Ulysses Jenkins’s VIDEO GRIOTS TRILOGY—a series of video meditations on history and culture in the which the filmmaker uses archival footage, photographs, image processing, and an elegiac soundtrack to construct an “other” hist...
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Mutual Native Duplex
Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1990 • United States
The second installment of Ulysses Jenkins’s VIDEO GRIOTS TRILOGY—a series of video meditations on history and culture in the which the filmmaker uses archival footage, photographs, image processing, and an elegiac soundtrack to construct an “oth...
