Within Our Gates

In this episode our hosts take a different direction, they don't even introduce themselves, we find them in mid-conversation and from there touch myriad of topics such as how movies like The Photograph are just lame social mobility pieces for a small group of Black folks, the beauty of Black support, Spike Lee's Bamboozled, movies we're horrified that are coming out,  the Oscar front runner Nomadland and how it caters to white liberal poverty tourism. Check it. We go in and take no prisoners while also having a lot of laughs. Will Smith's Emancipation: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/will-smith-antoine-fuqua-will-no-longer-film-emancipation-in-georgia.html Mtume's Letterboxd review of Nomadland: https://letterboxd.com/mtume/film/nomadland/ Mtume's Letterboxd review of The Photograph: https://letterboxd.com/mtume/film/the-photograph-2020/

This week we are ecstatic to have Dr. Jared Ball who is a father and husband. After that, he is a professor of Media and Africana Studies and produces multimedia for imixwhatilike.org. He joins Within Our Gates this week to discuss his Vernon Philosophy of Black Media Avoidance, and we discuss how and why Black people need to consider this particular lens when looking at Hollywood Cinema and media in general when Black people or Blackness is the subject. We go A LOT of places! Check it! The Vernon Philosophy of Black Media Avoidance. https://imixwhatilike.org/2021/01/19/one-night-in-american-skin-the-vernon-philosophy-of-black-media-avoidance/

This week we are honored to bring on the show Filmmaker Ephraim Asili whose new film The Inheritance is to be released soon. Ephraim and I talk about Black cinematic expression from a multitude of perspectives and have a frank conversation about what it means to be a Black Filmmaker taking a radical pathway in today's landscape. We also dive into his film The Inheritance, which is a MUST-see. The Inheritance Trailer: https://vimeo.com/515079985 The Inheritance Info: http://grasshopperfilm.com/film/the-inheritance/ The Diaspora Suite: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/tv/the-diaspora-suite/1

This week Adam and Mtume go further down the Americana Road, looking at "lost" 1970's film Joe, a film Mtume calls "a fascinating failure" as well as current films American Skin and One Night In Miami where we analyze the conversation around Americanness in movies. Adam also gives his keys to what Black Mainstream films must contain in order to be released. Peter Boyle on Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUyzjT1An4 Dr. Jared Ball on One Night In Miami and American Skin https://imixwhatilike.org/2021/01/19/one-night-in-american-skin-the-vernon-philosophy-of-black-media-avoidance/

Within Our Gates is BACK. This time with our new regular co-host Adam Thomas. This week we dive into the legacy of Cannon films and how their cinematic "cannon" think it gives evidence to how the white right-wing of today developed and our general xenophobic attitudes here in the U.S. Show Notes: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5nKFvQ8gIM The Delta Force Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UCFBS4a5I The Fictitious Life of Frank Dux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGVb3YXaE30&feature=youtu.be How an American Ninja Tricked Hollywood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vh4wbNy3Vo&feature=youtu.be Hitler's Hollywood Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVeFBjVcglU [https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXVeFBjVcglU&token=73fcfc-1-1612468300968]