So ego trip has been busy with a few things in the works. The most immediate of which is a documentary film series we're guest curating - with the help of the homie Andreas Vingaard - at the Maysles Institute in Harlem USA. Three evening programs over three months - the last Thursdays of January, February, and March. All of the programs are hip-hop related in some fashion; all feature one highly influential and renown piece of work paired with one that is rarely screened publicly.
We kick things off a week from Thursday with 80 Blocks From Tiffany's (1979), director Gary Weis' chronicle of the real life characters of the Savage Skulls and Savage Nomads street gangs, and other members of the SBX community. If you've never seen it, it's an indispensible peek into the environment that spawned hip-hop's eventual creative explosion. Portions of it are on youtube:
I'd never heard of this film until Lord SHR broke out his OG VHS one day at the crib some years back. It's since become regular viewing around the et HQ. Worth seeing for the re-enactment scenes alone (there's one in which the crew acts out a burglary to the strains of Chico Hamilton's "Conquistadores.") And there's a cool block party scene set to Chic's "Everybody Dance."
80 Blocks is paired with Steve Goodman's Shotgun (1982), which ought to provide a very interesting contrast. Both filmmakers will be in attendance, as well as Ponce Laspina, former 5th Division President of the Savage Skulls, and Detective Robert Werner of the NYPD, who is prominently featured in 80 Blocks. So we'll have some discussion about the films afterwards - something youtube clips definitely cannot provide. You can pre-order tickets here. So show your support!
We kick things off a week from Thursday with 80 Blocks From Tiffany's (1979), director Gary Weis' chronicle of the real life characters of the Savage Skulls and Savage Nomads street gangs, and other members of the SBX community. If you've never seen it, it's an indispensible peek into the environment that spawned hip-hop's eventual creative explosion. Portions of it are on youtube:
I'd never heard of this film until Lord SHR broke out his OG VHS one day at the crib some years back. It's since become regular viewing around the et HQ. Worth seeing for the re-enactment scenes alone (there's one in which the crew acts out a burglary to the strains of Chico Hamilton's "Conquistadores.") And there's a cool block party scene set to Chic's "Everybody Dance."
80 Blocks is paired with Steve Goodman's Shotgun (1982), which ought to provide a very interesting contrast. Both filmmakers will be in attendance, as well as Ponce Laspina, former 5th Division President of the Savage Skulls, and Detective Robert Werner of the NYPD, who is prominently featured in 80 Blocks. So we'll have some discussion about the films afterwards - something youtube clips definitely cannot provide. You can pre-order tickets here. So show your support!
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