Ulysses Jenkins Movies

Experiemental video using Datamax graphics software. This piece is a very early example of the use of computer animation in video art. ZGrass refers...

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The Watts Summer Festival is one of the oldest African American cultural festivals in the United States. The Watts community founded the event in...

Genre: Documentary

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Writes director Ulysses Jenkins: "This video takes the 'Planet X' myth and interfaces it with the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, LA, based upon...

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This performance took place in 1983 at the Art Dock on Center Street in Los Angeles. Like much of Jenkins's other work, it involved multiple...

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In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image...

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In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image...

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Ulysses Jenkins charts the history of jazz—what he calls “the first true American art form"—from its beginnings in New Orleans and...

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Cast: Cheryl Banks-Smith

Initially created as an editing exercise for his students at UCSD, Jenkins’ Inconsequential Doggereal mixes poetic narrative fragments of...

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This video documents Cake Walk, an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant's...

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In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image...

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Director Ulysses Jenkins calls his film a "dreamscape in which the dreamer awakens to a visitation of three minstrels who tell the story of the...

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An investigation of the American media portrayal of black men as misunderstood tragic figures throughout recent history. Secrecy is an African...

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This composition provides a tribute to the world's most formidable peace activist, Anwar Sadat. The video paints visions of issues concerning Earth's...

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A studio visit by David Hammons to John Outterbridge's studio. Recorded by Ulysses Jenkins as Hammons proclaims an arts affliction.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Hammons

This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Hammons

Mass of Images, a recorded performance that does indeed engage black stereotypes perpetuated by the American media. In the work, Jenkins appears on a...

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Cast: Ulysses Jenkins

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Abe

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Abe

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Abe

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Abe

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Abe