Heavy Metal Parking Lot: On Subculture, Intention, and the Politics of Personhood
Produced by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, [Heavy Metal Parking Lot] is rooted in personhood and dedicates itself to exploring a condensed version of the heavy metal scene. If read in such a context, there is an intrinsically political current running through the film, one which encompasses the heavy metal movement of the 1980s, and which hints at the criticism and fear faced by the subculture as a result.
On Collective Correctives to Mainstream Black Representation in Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message the Message is Death (2016)
Through employing a dialectical editing style, Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message the Message is Death (2016) attempts to craft a comprehensive visual portrait of Black life in the US. [...] What Jafa ultimately ponders is if the mainstream, where Black images predominantly focus on celebrity, respectability and historic oppression can ever provide an accurate depiction of the complexity of Black life, and if viral videos created by the masses are enough to fill in these notable gaps in representation.