Love is the Message the Message is Death (2016) dir. Arthur Jafa

A reflection on Jafa s desire to craft a black cinema that is responsive to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of Black life. Comprised of found footage sampled from films, newscasts, sporting events, music videos, and citizen videos, all of it downloaded from the Internet, the clips have been woven together and set to Kanye West s anthem Ultralight Together the images and music make for an intense, poignant meditation on African American life in the twentiethcentury. This history is also the history, by necessity, of racism and prejudice.