Tony Cokes Videoworks: Volume 1
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: African-American, Politics, Race, Videoworks
In this agit-pop double feature, Cokes celebrates civil disobedience and deconstructs race relations. Cokes inter-cuts political slogans and social facts with an array of footage and juxtaposes the images with pop, rock, and rap soundtracks.
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Subtitled A Rebellion against the Commodity, this engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy,” Internationale...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: african-american, dance, interview, performance, politics, race |
In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are unnoticed or discounted by whites—gestures, hesitations, stares, off-the-cuff remarks, jokes—details of an...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: race |
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