John Wilson is an actor. He is best know for appearing in Isaac Julien's films Looking for Langston, The Attendant and Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask.
Um cientista inescrupuloso trabalha num projeto secreto para achar a cura para o mal da “vaca louca”. Em suas pesquisas ele descobre que as larvas expostas ao seu remédio conseguem multiplicar as forças e fortalecer o seu organismo.
Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
A sticky summer night in central Texas. Suzy Varden picks up an English hitch-hiker, Dan Sheets, en route to Mexico. They check into a seedy motel, where, with the help of a bottle of cheap bourbon, Suzy's story unfolds.
