MUSIC AND MYTHICAL SHORTS: Black Fire, No Sugar No Cream, High Power, Assaman, Hommage to Mama / BREATHING BLACK

Assaman

Assaman is a cosmic twin love story with the future. A man named Tukki meets a sky-being named Asé. Together, they become suspended in a visual and sonic examination in search of flourishing joy and self-care. What may seem a simple love story quickly expands into a kaleidoscope of introspective, interconnected and intergenerational movement and moments. Assaman holds you for 14 minutes in an Afrofuturist and Indigenous sonic vision - a hypnotic journey. Assaman means "the sky" in Wolof.

NO SUGAR NO CREAM

NO SUGAR NO CREAM is a collaboration between Meadows, Tamper, and Morrow about growing up in America as a black man. Both men are asking what will the US look like for the next generation of black kids coming up in this world.

What happens when the nightmares these kids have become realities or the anxiety of those nightmares becoming real? How does systemic powers of oppression attempt to erase stories and why? How do family and friends of color pass information on to the next generation. And finally, where do we go from here?

High Power

After a god-awful shameful performance, an insecure comedian falls into a daring yet mystical identity crisis.

HOMAGE TO MAMA

"Homage to Mama'' is a stylish, poetic, histrionic expression of rebellion adorned with notes of piety & academic inference. After experiencing bias and brutality during an unwarranted traffic stop in 2018, Tiffany Salas began to cope with her trauma through education. 

Black Fire

The Black Fire Record company was founded in 1975 by Jimmy Gray and J. Plunky Branch, two iconic names in the music business, synonymous with creativity and commitment. Black Fire Records was established to amplify and produce culturally relevant jazz and progressive original music for the Washington, DC community. This small, independent label would go on to revolutionize the music business, nationally and internationally.

Breathing Black

Breathing Black follows nine Black Baltimoreans as they find joy amidst the global COVID-19 Pandemic and a summer of reckoning with the continued genocide of the Black body after the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.