Saul Williams
Nascimento : 1972-02-29,
História
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Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam.
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Writer
In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.
Producer
In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.
Director
In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.
Music
An open-ended narrative of memory, love, and loss
A dystopian world filled with polar opposites seeks to find harmony through common threads.
Original Music Composer
Em um crime noir sobre a criança-soldado urbana, Akilla Brown captura um menino jamaicano de quinze anos após um assalto à mão armada. Durante uma noite cansativa, Akilla enfrenta um ciclo de violência geracional do qual ele pensou ter escapado.
Akilla Brown
Em um crime noir sobre a criança-soldado urbana, Akilla Brown captura um menino jamaicano de quinze anos após um assalto à mão armada. Durante uma noite cansativa, Akilla enfrenta um ciclo de violência geracional do qual ele pensou ter escapado.
My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me.
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia aborda uma série de histórias vividas por uma lancha, desde sua concepção até às grandes aventuras vividas em Miami. Uma lancha que navega por tudo, desde golfinhos até um não-convencional amor.
Oberon
A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fantasy and reality collide. It’s set in a world where glamorous stars, commanding moguls, starving artists and vaulting pretenders all vie to get ahead.
Equal parts love story, road movie, and Americana, DREAMSTATES tells the haunting tale of two wayward souls (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman) discovering their love for one another in their dreams and reality while touring the United States with some of the most pivotal figures of the Afro-Punk movement – Sultry, sensual, and quixotic, an underground portrait of America: haunted and hollow.
Shaban
Centers on a Parisian rapper who suddenly becomes deaf and his relationships.
Himself
Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn during the 80's and 90's that included the great Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, Rosie Perez, Saul Williams, Lorna Simpson, Talib Kweli just to name a few. Narrated and written by Fort Greene resident Nelson George, this feature length documentary celebrates "Brooklyn's equivalent of the Harlem Renaissance" and follows the rise of a new kind of African American artist, the Brooklyn Boheme.
Satché
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.
Rap Artist
A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog.
Himself
Criminosos do Direito Autoral. Este documentário examina as criações de músicos dedicados ao Remix e indaga se as leis do direito autoral são realmente válidas contra estes artistas, visto que os mesmos são praticamente proibidos de praticarem sua arte devido à grande burocracia que as gravadoras impõem à criação de sonoridades musicais.
Lonnie (War Veteran)
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Self
Award winning documentary by Joslyn Rose Lyons exploring the relationship between spiritual connection and the creative process in hip-hop music.
Ernie
Prot é um homem misterioso, que vive dizendo ter vindo do planeta K-Pax, distante mil anos-luz da Terra. Por causa disto ele é internado em um hospício, onde conhece o Dr. Mark Powell, um psiquiatra disposto a provar que ele na verdade sofre de um grave distúrbio de personalidade. Mas as descrições de Prot sobre como é a vida em seu planeta acabam encantando os demais pacientes do hospício, fazendo com que eles queiram ir com Prot quando ele diz que está próximo o dia em que deverá voltar ao seu planeta.
Jean's Narration (voice)
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Ray Joshua
Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent. Written by Offline Publicist Young Ray Joshua lives in the Washington, DC, district known as Dodge City, which is dominated by gang wars. One day he is arrested when his drug dealer is gunned down while talking to him. He is put to prison where two rival gangs, Thug Life and the Union, want to recruit him as a member. A new digital restoration from a 35mm interpositive made in collaboration between Sundance Institute, the Academy Film Archive, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Graduate Student
A escritora Ellen Gulden é filha de um dos mais respeitados jornalistas americanos, George Gulden, que tem dificuldade de demonstrar seu amor, e de Kate Gulden, que é totalmente aberta. Quando a mãe é diagnosticada com câncer, Ellen precisa intervir e acabará aprendendo mais sobre si mesma e sua família e a idiossincracia do estilo de vida.
Frida, a young and clever waitress, has her eyes set on tech mogul Slater King. After skilfully manoeuvring her way into King's inner circle, she is invited to a intimate gathering on his private island. Despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something terrifying hiding beneath the island’s lush facade.
