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 “other” history—MUTUAL NATIVE DUPLEX explores the mutual alliances between Native and African Americans and celebrates the “neo-American model” of intercultural cooperation that grew out of these encounters.
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The Nomadics
Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1991 • United States
The third work 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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Notions of Freedom
Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 2007 • United States
In NOTIONS OF FREEDOM, Ulysses Jenkins charts the history of jazz—what he calls “the first true American art form”—from its beginnings in New Orleans and the American South to the classic work of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and through th...
