A 15-minute spell that turns one man's journey into ancestral magic—Jamaican folklore crashes into 60s NYC.
A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs his "immigrant folktales" using traditional lore of his native Jamaica to dramatize his migration to New York in the 60's.
Direction
Chenzira lets Pinnock's body become the story itself.
Production
Archival footage woven like thread into live performance.
Director
Ayoka Chenzira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chenzira was among the first Black women to direct an animated film; this collaboration bridges experimental Black cinema and oral history traditions rarely archived.
Pinnock's 'immigrant folktales' were performed live for years before filming; the camera captures an endangered art form—personal mythology as public resistance.
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