Jenn Nkiru

Jenn Nkiru

History

Jenn Nkiru is a Nigerian-British artist and director. In 2020 she directed the critically acclaimed music video for Beyoncé's "Brown Skin Girl", which won the Best Music Video award at the 2021 Grammy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenn Nkiru, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jenn Nkiru

Movies

Out / Side of Time
Out / Side of Time
Director
This new work was made especially for the room by Jenn Nkiru, a British-born filmmaker of Nigerian descent. Her videos celebrate the vibrant creativity and speculative vision of the African diaspora while exploring what she calls, "cosmic archaeology," a potentially mystical connection to history through visual memory.
Black Is King
Black Is King
Director
This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today’s young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.
Black to Techno
Black to Techno
Director
BLACK TO TECHNO is a music documentary charting the anthropological, socio-economical, geopolitical roots of techno from Detroit and how it travelled and translated into becoming the soundtrack to the fall of the wall in Berlin.
As Told To G/D Thyself
As Told To G/D Thyself
Director
The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.
Hub Tones
Hub Tones
Director
The visual reference point for the video comes from Nkiru's parents' Ikwerre tribe. In their Oboni ceremony, they channel the spirit through repetition, instrumentation and movement, going deeper with each tone until it becomes transcendent. Nkiru gives the women in the video the choreography and codes to also go deeper into that spirit-space.
Rebirth Is Necessary
Rebirth Is Necessary
Executive Producer
Director Jenn Nkiru authors a personal and powerful exploration of blackness through piecing together dreamlike portraits with stunning archival footage that includes Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra and revolutionary organization the Black Panther Party.
Rebirth Is Necessary
Rebirth Is Necessary
Writer
Director Jenn Nkiru authors a personal and powerful exploration of blackness through piecing together dreamlike portraits with stunning archival footage that includes Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra and revolutionary organization the Black Panther Party.
Rebirth Is Necessary
Rebirth Is Necessary
Director
Director Jenn Nkiru authors a personal and powerful exploration of blackness through piecing together dreamlike portraits with stunning archival footage that includes Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra and revolutionary organization the Black Panther Party.
En Vogue
En Vogue
Director
A high-concept, in-your-face experimental short showcasing the unique beauty, energy and exuberance of one of NYC's last underground subcultures: Voguing & Ballroom