Sacha Jenkins — Director (6)

Movie

Fresh Dressed (2015)
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other title: 时尚着装 / 時尚著裝
Fresh Dressed chronicles the history of Hip-Hop | Urban fashion and its rise from southern cotton plantations to the gangs of 1970s in the South Bronx, to corporate America, and everywhere in-between. Supported by rich archival materials and in depth interviews with individuals crucial to the evolution of a way of life--and the outsiders who studied and admired them--Fresh Dressed goes to the core of where style was born on the black and brown side of town.

Movie

Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017)
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Sacha Jenkins actor: Alex Alonso / B-Real …
other title: Burn Motherfucker, Burn ! 50 ans de révoltes
Sacha Jenkins’s Burn Motherfucker Burn starts making connections right away, coming out of the credits with one of (too many) contemporary analogues for the King video: the 2015 cell phone footage of L.A. cops murdering unarmed African-American Charly “Africa” Keunang. From there, we’re bounced back to a distant counterpart, the harrowing story of the April 1962 police shootings and brutality at Mosque No. 27, and brought up to King via a kind of cultural history of the city: migration from the South; the formation of gangs within these communities; the Watts riot, in detail. Burn is another well-made film; Jenkins’s cutting is inventive, particularly in his segues from one topic to another (he introduces Chief Bill Parker via a television game show clip, and comes in on the King chapter via Chief Gates’s internal LAPD video message on “The Foothill Incident”). But the film’s main virtue is the clarity with which it lays out the cause and effect relationships: the rise of activism and consciousness in the wake of Watts (particularly via the Black Panthers), then how the faltering of those movements led to the reemergence of gang culture/warfare, which led to the crack epidemic (and LAPD’s involvement in it), and then the music and culture that came out of that.

Movie

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)
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萨沙·詹金斯 actor: 路易斯·阿姆斯特朗
other title: 路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的黑人形象与蓝调音乐 / Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong …
“Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues” offers an intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary, directed by Sacha Jenkins, honors Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States. The film shows how Armstrong’s own life spans the shift from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, and how he became a lightning rod figure in that turbulent era.

TV

Rapture (2018)
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Steven Caple Jr. / Marcus A. Clarke … actor: 2 Chainz / Logic …
Rapture stares directly into the bright light that hip hop culture shines on the world and doesn't blink. Throughout 8 episodes Rapture dives into artists' lives with their families and friends, to sitting front row in the studio and grinding on tour, to experiencing the ecstatic power of moving the crowd. Written by Netflix Netflix纪录片《Rapture》共八集,介绍 Nas, T.I., Logic, G-Eazy, 2 Chainz, A-Boogie, Dave East, Rapsody, Just Blaze 等人台前台后的生活