Directed by Jake Meginsky with Neil Young • 2018 • United States
Starring Milford Graves

This portrait of renowned percussionist and founding pioneer of avant-garde jazz Milford Graves finds him exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. The film draws the viewer through th...

Directed by Jake Meginsky • 2019 • United States

Surrounded by his fellow Yara practitioners, Milford Graves arrives at the arts center in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, for a unique concert, footage of which is interspersed with scenes of the artist in the hospital that same summer.

Directed by Jake Meginsky and Sarah Lanzillotta • 2020 • United States

In the heat of the summer, in his backyard garden in Jamaica, Queens, Milford Graves sings to Ọsanyin, the one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged orisha of healing herbs.

Directed by Jake Meginsky • 2020 • United States

Shot on 16 mm under the grow lights in the Closed Door Yara Temple behind Milford Graves’s house in Jamaica, Queens, BATA WORMHOLE captures the artist in the heat of his creative process, creating new sculptures which will eventually show at ICA P...

Directed by Jake Meginsky • 2021 • United States

In the months before he passed away, Milford Graves created the paintings that were displayed at the Fridman Gallery and Artists Space by vibrating the paint to the frequencies of old reel-to-reel practice tapes and the sound of his own heart.

Directed by Jake Meginsky • 2011 • United States

On August 23, 2011, three days after Milford Graves’s seventieth birthday, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake cracked the soil near Mineral, Virginia. That day, the energy traveled all the way to New York City, where Jake Meginsky was filming Graves in hi...