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.
Up Next in The Magic of Milford Graves
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Bata Wormhole
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...
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Prof at Home Painting
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.
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Earthquake Clips
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...
