Movies: Wangechi Mutu

Live-action/CG animation music video for the artist Santigold, which has been shown in museums such as Nasher Museum of Art, who initially commissioned the piece....

A black boy learns contradicting lessons of manhood and masculinity on the day of his cousin's funeral....

A look back at the last fifty years in African American art, Colored Frames is an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it ...

This narrative restraint appears perhaps most clearly in Wangechi Mutu’s video Cutting, in which the artist enters the frame and proceeds to rhythmically hack away at a log in an expansive desert landscape before finally laying down her machete and l...

Set at Mount Suswa, a holy site in Kenya, the film centers histories that have been lost and the beginning process of reclamation. A meditation on reconnection, the film recounts moments from recent and distant Kenyan history. Narrated by the off-scr...