Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection (1976)

“마이클 잭슨과 다이애나 로스, 퀸시 존스가 재해석한 『오즈의 마법사』 뮤지컬 버전.” 평범한 가정에서 자라왔고 지금은 독립을 꿈꾸는 스물네 살의 도로시. 그런데 어느 날 그녀에게 상상도 못한 일이 벌어진다. 눈보라가 몰아치던 밤, 도로시는 강아지 토토를 찾으러 나갔다가 거대한 회오리 바람에 휘말려 어디론가 날아간다. 그리고 비현실적인 장소에서 정신을 차린 도로시는 충격적인 광경과 마주한다. 도로시가 부딪혀 떨어트린 조명 구조물에 누군가 깔려 죽고 만 것이다. 동화 『오즈의 마법사』를 과감하게 각색한 뮤지컬 영화. 거장 시드니 루멧이 연출하고 퀸시 존스가 음악감독을 맡아 원작의 동화적 풍경을 빌딩숲, 지하철, 공장 등 대도시의 인공적이고 삭막한 풍경으로 바꾸어놓았다. 또한 허수아비로 분장한 스무 살의 마이클 잭슨이 춤을 추고 노래를 하는 모습을 볼 수 있는 것 역시 에서 놓칠 수 없는 부분. (2016년 제1회 충무로뮤지컬영화제)

American funk band Vulfpeck, joined by a number of special guest musicians, performs a sold-out live show at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 28, 2019.

An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty Mabry Davis arrived on the scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion style and outrageous funk. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and The Commodores and married Miles Davis, turning him from jazz to funk and then went on to ignite stages in the 70s with her sassy sexed up mix of hard rock and bluesy funk, inspiring artists from Prince to Erykah Badu to Karen 0 and Peaches. Then she vanished…

Set in Rio de Janeiro's most notorious favelas, the underprivileged youth share their perspective on the extremely popular, pornographic favela funk music with respect to their personal (love) lives, situated in a lawless subculture of drug gangs, machismo, violence and sex.

On the 3rd of August 1983, Prince played a benefit concert for the Minnesota Dance Theatre Company at First Avenue, Minneapolis. The concert was instigated by Loyce Houlton, artistic director of the long-time modern dance troupe. She had met Prince during the band's dance classes and asked him to play a benefit show. Prince's concert raise $23,000 for the financially beleaguered MDT dance company. The concert is generally regarded as one of the most excited shows he has ever played. The basic tracks of three songs from the concert were used on Purple Rain.

On The Beach is a compilation of music from the Crown library, with sounds of ocean waves. The video version pairs the music and sounds with scenes of summer, featuring plenty of waves, sand, and much more

A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.

How do funky machismo and buddhism go together in one man? This music documentary takes you into the groove of Joseph Bowie and his Defunkt, a major innovator in the history of jazz funk.

James Brown's legacy has influenced rap, soul, funk and R&B. But along with his huge talent, there's a dark side to Brown's success that includes stints in prison and unceasing tabloid speculation. This in-depth documentary takes a look at the meteoric highs and deep lows of Brown's career, offering some fascinating insights from the Godfather of Soul himself, as well as interview footage with Chuck D, Little Richard, Wyclef Jean and many others.

콘래드 존슨과 캐시미어 스테이지 밴드 이야기. 콘래드 존슨은 별 볼 일 없는 학교 재즈 밴드를 전설적인 펑크 집단으로 만든다. 그로부터 35년이 지나고, 학생들은 자신들의 인생을 바꿔놓은 존슨 교수에게 경의를 표하는 무대를 마련하기로 한다. 악기에 쌓인 먼지를 털어내고 다시 돌아온 무대 위에 변치 않은 그들의 음악 세계가 다시 펼쳐진다. (2011년 제8회 EBS 국제다큐영화제)

Recorded in February 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Ludmilla releases the first live DVD of her career. With diverse participations, the audiovisual project has features with renowned names of music, from different styles, such as Anitta, Jão, Léo Santana, Ferrugem and Simone & Simaria, besides gathering countless hits from the singer, some new songs and a cover by Beyoncé. In total, there are 24 tracks and more than 70 minutes of music. “I hope my fans and the audience enjoy it too much, it was done with a lot of love, affection and energy. My heart is there, in every stretch, for you", Ludmilla explains.

A city that has been living for two years with the law that prohibits "clandestine parties". A youth who, when reunited, risks receiving a police raid on their doorstep, in the street, in the park or in the square. Spatial segregation, denial of the right to the city and public space for the leisure of the poor, black and peripheral. Willingness to make art, create music, lyrics, poetry, beats, hits and spread culture in this repressive scenario.

After being misled by the police about a rape and murder near a popular Washington, D.C. Go-Go club, a jaded journalist begins digging into the establishment's racist framework.

Who are the chicks that make up the funk movement, and where are they? Funk has always been a form of protest, just as being a woman is. BEAT IS PROTEST: FUNK FROM A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE depicts the last decade underground scene of the funk women protesters in São Paulo. The testimonies come from transgender and cisgender women who navigate this universe in different roles, such as singers, DJs, beat-makers, producers, entrepreneurs, rappers, and dancers, and also from drag queens.

For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, The Chicago Party dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The CopHerBox II and onto TV screens. Pooling business acumen with music scene prominence, James Christopher and Willie Woods opened the CopHerBox II in 1979 at 117th and Halsted on Chicago’s Southside. To promote their venture, they purchased airtime on Chicago’s WCIU-TV Channel 26 for weekly installments of The Chicago Party. Each Saturday, the club’s adult clientele filled the illuminated dance floor, providing vibrant B-roll between tapings of breakdancing magicians and Jheri curled ventriloquists, giving an audience to a rising regime of Chicago Soul heavyweights.

A compelling story about Grammy-winning Venezuelan funksters Los Amigos Invisibles, from their early days playing in Caracas, Venezuela, to being discovered by David Byrne of Talking Heads and their rise to international stardom. The viewer experiences their story as it intertwines with a live performance filmed at the Highline Ballroom in New York City in March 2011. The band, with the same original 6 members, celebrates 20 years in 2011.

Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971 is the only recording that documents one of his live performances with the original J.B.'s lineup featuring Bootsy and Catfish Collins. Love Power Peace was originally intended for a 1972 release as a vinyl triple album, but was cancelled after key members of the original J.B.'s left Brown to join Parliament-Funkadelic.

A truly funky, soulful DVD compilation of live performances from the masters of R&B music. Features incredible concert footage of James Brown, Chic, The Pointer Sisters, Dionne Warwick, The Brothers Johnson, The Stylistics and more! Includes the hit singles I Got You (I Feel Good), Le Freak, Strawberry Letter 23, Jump (For My Love), You Make Me Feel Brand New, and Have You Seen Her?