Saul Williams

Sorunlu hayatlarını geride bırakmaya çalışan ikiz kardeşler yeniden başlamak için memleketlerine döner ancak daha büyük bir kötülüğün onları karşılamak için beklediğini keşfederler. "Şeytanla dans etmeye devam edersen bir gün peşinden evine gelir."

Teknoloji milyarderi Slater King, bağış toplama galasında kokteyl garsonu Frida ile tanıştığında, onu özel adasında rüya gibi bir tatile davet eder. Ancak destansı ortama, güzel insanlara, sürekli akan şampanyaya ve gece geç saatlere kadar süren dans partilerine rağmen, Frida adanın yemyeşil görüntüsünün altında uğursuz bir şeylerin saklandığını hissedebilir.

Prot isimli bir yabancı kendini bir tren garının ortasında bulur. K-PAX isimli uzak bir gezegenden geldiğini açıkça söylemesi, bir akıl hastaları hastanesine kapatılmasına neden olur. Gerek K-PAX hakkında verdiği bilgiler, gerekse fiziki bazı özellikler, doktoru Powell'ın aklının karışmasına neden olur. Dr Powell araştırmalarına devam edecek ve Prot'un gerçek kimliğini ortaya çıkaracaktır.

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.

Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money. This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a “borrowed melody” became a “copyright infringement.” The film showcases many of hip-hop music’s founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground—while also featuring emerging hip-hop artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more.

Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a speedboat ride, it's a Miami adventure.

Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the screen with a different kind of musical documentary that not only showcases performances by some of the hottest acts to take the stage, but offers interviews with such musical icons as Beck, Joshua Homme, Mos Def, and Perry Farrell as well. From English icon Morrissey's performance at the inaugural Coachella Festival back in 1999 to Canadian indie rockers the Arcade Fire's electric 2005 set, the musical acts featured here run the gamut from hip-hop to alternative and virtually everything in between. Other artists featured include the Pixies, the Flaming Lips, Kool Keith, Radiohead, Saul Williams, and Squarepusher.

A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fantasy and reality collide. It’s set in a world where glamorous stars, commanding moguls, starving artists and vaulting pretenders all vie to get ahead.

In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.

The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his brother, now a suicide, had lost to them

Ruben Santiago-Hudson'ın övgüyle karşılanan otobiyografik tek kişilik gösterisinden uyarlanan bu müzikal film, biyolojik bağları aşan bir anne ile oğul arasındaki sevgiyi konu alan ilham verici bir olgunlaşma dramasıdır. Rachel "Nanny" Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) adlı bir kadının hikayesini anlatıyor; kendi kararlı yöntemleriyle bir topluluk inşa eden ve ayrımcılığı bertaraf eden bir kadın. İyi bir blues şarkısı gibi, film hem acı veriyor hem de güzel notalara dokunuyor; hayatın hem kalp kırıklıklarına hem de neşelerine.

A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog.

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.

Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn during the 80's and 90's that included the great Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, Rosie Perez, Saul Williams, Lorna Simpson, Talib Kweli just to name a few. Narrated and written by Fort Greene resident Nelson George, this feature length documentary celebrates "Brooklyn's equivalent of the Harlem Renaissance" and follows the rise of a new kind of African American artist, the Brooklyn Boheme.

Centers on a Parisian rapper who suddenly becomes deaf and his relationships.

The homeless live in a forgotten world in downtown Los Angeles.

Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.

Award winning documentary by Joslyn Rose Lyons exploring the relationship between spiritual connection and the creative process in hip-hop music.

Equal parts love story, road movie, and Americana, DREAMSTATES tells the haunting tale of two wayward souls (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman) discovering their love for one another in their dreams and reality while touring the United States with some of the most pivotal figures of the Afro-Punk movement – Sultry, sensual, and quixotic, an underground portrait of America: haunted and hollow.

Director Paul Devlin's fast-paced documentary follows four bards as they head to the 1996 National Poetry Slam in Portland, OR. The competition begins with the Grand Slam tournament at New York City's Nuyorican Poets Café, and then it's off to the nationals for chaps Saul Williams, Beau Sia, Mums the Schemer and Jessica Care Moore. The quartet vies against 26 other teams from across the country in a dramatic contest awash with tension, enmity and controversy.

A friend group of black women face life's tests and triumphs together. From dating to divorce, and friends to family to relationships, Joan, Maya, Lynn and Toni support each other despite their differing backgrounds.

Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.

The Chris Rock Show is a late night comedy talk show featured on HBO. It was created by Chris Rock and featured various guests. The show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program in 1999. It ran for five seasons from 1997 to 2000.