Okwui Okpokwasili
Biography: Okwui Okpokwasili (born August 6, 1972) is an Igbo-Nigerian American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer. Her multidisciplinary performances draw upon her training in theatre, and she describes her work as at "the intersection of theatre, dance, and the installation." Several of her works relate to historical events in Nigeria. She is especially interested in subjects of cultural and historical memory and how the Western imagination perceives of African bodies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 06, 1972
Deathday: N/A
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The Exorcist: Believer
2023-10-04
The Exorcist: Believer
Overview: Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-04
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The Hoax
2006-10-14
The Hoax
Overview: In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-14
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4:44
2017-07-06
4:44
Overview: Centers on two performances; in the first, dancers Storyboard P and Okwui Okpokwasili twist and twine their bodies in a moving two-part dance of desire, pain, and regret. In the second, present-day hip-hop royalty Beyoncé and Jay-Z serenade each other as part of a live performance. The work accompanies Jay-Z's track of the same name, widely viewed as an apology to his wife, Beyoncé for his infidelity and emotional failures as a husband. A collaboration between Arthur Jafa, Malik Sayeed, and Baltimore-based Elissa Blount Moorhead, the video uses cinematography, choreography, and found footage to explore complex and constricted notions of masculinity in an insightful and moving tapestry of Black love and life.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-06
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Master
2022-03-18
Master
Overview: At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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Remote
2022-09-30
Remote
Overview: Finding new cinematic language to express the desire for physical contact in our increasingly isolated, mediated, and highly consumer-driven environments, Remote follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Keep Looking
2024-01-25
Keep Looking
Overview: A young filmmaker named Domino travels from the UK to New York City to hunt down funding for her new film. Harkening back to classic counter-cultural Big Apple films of the 70s and 80s, Keep Looking has a loose, jazzy feel that gives this simple narrative a hip freshness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
2010-11-10
How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
Overview: A multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores loss and transcendence experienced in human partnerships. Reflecting on his relationship with 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener Walter Carter as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction classic, Solaris, Lemon and 6 dancers create a performance which arcs from turbulent physicality to restorative grace.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014-09-08
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-08
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The Woman in the Yard
2025-03-27
The Woman in the Yard
Overview: A mysterious woman repeatedly appears in a family's front yard, often delivering chilling warnings or unsettling messages, leaving the residents to question her identity, motives, and the potential danger she might pose.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-27
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Bronx Gothic
2017-07-12
Bronx Gothic
Overview: From director Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY) comes an electrifying portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her acclaimed one-woman show, BRONX GOTHIC. Rooted in memories of her childhood, Okwui – who’s worked with conceptual artists like Ralph Lemon and Julie Taymor – fuses dance, song, drama, and comedy to create a mesmerizing space in which audiences can engage with a story about two 12-year-old black girls coming of age in the 1980s. With intimate vérité access to Okwui and her audiences off the stage, BRONX GOTHIC allows for unparalleled insight into her creative process as well as the complex social issues embodied in it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-12
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Madeline's Madeline
2018-08-10
Madeline's Madeline
Overview: Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-10
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Her Composition
2015-10-30
Her Composition
Overview: A college music student turns to prostitution to make a little cash and look for inspiration, as she has blocked on a major musical composition that she must create in order to graduate.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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I Am Legend
2007-12-12
I Am Legend
Overview: Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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It's Not About Jimmy Keene
2019-01-29
It's Not About Jimmy Keene
Overview: The police shooting of an unarmed black teen causes friction within a mixed-race Los Angeles family. Ivan, the youngest sibling, is stalked by visions of Jimmy Keene’s floating corpse. Torn between the opposing worldviews of his two older sisters, Ivan searches for his voice while the family divisions heighten after the parents take sides.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-29
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Altostratus: An Allegory
2020-06-29
Altostratus: An Allegory
Overview: Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-29
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The Interpreter
2005-04-08
The Interpreter
Overview: After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-08
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along
2024-11-13
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along
Overview: Join Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, and more as they invite viewers behind-the-scenes of Agatha All Along.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-13
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