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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

InfiniteBody Honor Roll 2024

 InfiniteBody Honor Roll 2024

Eva Yaa Asantewaa
 
Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Wicked

You know who this is.
  
Kali Reis,True Detective: Night Country

Origin's Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

 
Kōji Yakusho, Perfect Days

Doechii


Artists, I thank Spirit for your lives.

I wish you the recognition, respect, support, and care you need,

for you give us so much.

Stay strong in 2025!

--Eva Yaa Asantewaa


Good Grief  (Netflix)


Good Grief, written and directed by Daniel Levy, streaming on Netflix

Each of Us A Desert, by Mark Oshiro (Macmillan, 2020)

Yungchen Lhamo – One Drop of Kindness (Real World Records, 2023)

Artist Firelei Báez: I Consider Myself a Filter | Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Hear, by Ogemdi Ude, Out-Front! Fesival 2024, The Center, January 13-14

King in the Wilderness, directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, 2018, streaming on Max

 

Choreographer Samar Haddad King, APAP showing

 
Heather Christian's Terce: A Practical Breviary (photo: Maria Baranova)

Gathering, by Samar Haddad King (Yaa Samar! Dance Theater), work-in-progress showing for APAP at The Center for Ballet and the Arts, January 16 

Okan (band), Elizabeth Rodriguez: vocals, violin; Magdelys Savigne: vocals, percussion (website)

Jeremy Dutcher (musician) (website)

Beverly Johnson: IN VOGUE, directed by Josh Ravetch, 59E59 Theaters, January 21

Origin, directed by Ava DuVernay

True Detective: Night Country, directed by Issa López, streaming on Max

Terce: A Practical Breviary, written, composed and created by Heather Christian, directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant, January 24-February 4

Aristotle Thinks Again, directed/choreographed by Dan Safer, Great Jones Repertory, La MaMa, January 25-February 4


¡Fenomenal!, Rompeforma 1989-1996

¡Fenomenal!, Rompeforma 1989-1996, with Merián Soto and Viveca Vázquez, The Dance Historian Is In, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, January 31

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, 2015)

Joan Baez: I Am A Noise, directed by Karen O'Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O'Boyle, streaming on Hulu

The Vince Staples Show, Episode 2, directed by Ben Younger (2024), streaming on Netflix

Motaz Azaiza Captured Gaza’s Suffering. But ‘Nothing Changed.’ by Mona El-Naggar, Neil Collier and Mark Boyer, The New York Times

All of Us Strangers, directed by Andrew Haigh (2024), streaming on Hulu

Perfect Days, directed by Wim Wenders (2023)

What We Hold, by Jean Butler, Irish Arts Center, February 14-March 3

Dune: Part Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve (2024)

Anatomy of A Fall, directed by Justine Triet (2023), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Black Cake, created by Marissa Jo Cerar, directed by Natalia Leite (2023), streaming on Hulu

The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer (2023), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

"The Shape of My Impact" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, edited by Briona Simone Jones, The New Press (2021)

Damsel, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (2024), streaming on Netflix

Shirley, directed by John Ridley (2024), streaming on Netflix

Cowboy Carter, by Beyoncé (2024)

Harlem (2021-2023), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, directed by Ari Katcher (2024), streaming on Max

 

Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You is the Sea

Behind You is the Sea, by Susan Muaddi Darraj (Harper Collins, 2024)

Ripley, directed by Steven Zaillian (2024), streaming on Netflix

Tig Notaro: Hello Again, directed by Stephanie Allynne (2024), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov (2023), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Japanese Tea and Ritual Room —卯月Uzuki (April), by Maho Ogawa with Carolyn Hall, Annie MingHao Wang, and Tomoko Hojo, JACK, April 19-20

Imagination: A Manifesto, by Ruha Benjamin (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024)

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Twentieth Anniversary Edition), by Robin D. G. Kelley (Penguin Random House, 2022)


Prentice Penny's Black Twitter: A People's History (photo: Disney/Andrew Walker)

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca at The Joyce Theater, April 23-28

Ahead of the Curve, directed by Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow (2020), streaming on Netflix

El Niño, by John Adams, The Metropolitan Opera, 2023-24 season

Black Twitter: A People's History, directed by Prentice Penny (2024), streaming on Hulu

Butterfly in the Sky: The Story of Reading Rainbow, directed by Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb (2024), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Stax: Soulville U.S.A., directed by Jamila Wignot (2024), streaming on Max

Two Weeks Inside Gaza’s Ruined Hospitals, by Samer Attar; video by Alexander Stockton and Amanda Su, The New York Times


Pacita Abad. Detail. Marcos and His Cronies (1985-95)


Pacita Abad, MoMA PS 1, April 4-September 2

Heroes, by John Scott, La MaMa Moves, May 30-June 2

Hit Man, directed by Richard Linklater (2024) streaming on Netflix

Chaka Khan: Tiny Desk Concert, NPR Music, June 11

Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis, directed by David Horn, PBS Great Performances, streaming May 24-July 19

MoviePass, MovieCrash, directed by Muta'Ali (2024), streaming on Max

Remembering Gene Wilder, directed by Ron Frank (2023), streaming on Netflix

 

Andrea Gibson's poetry: You Better Be Lightning
 

You Better Be Lightning, by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry, 2021)

Hacks: Seasons 1-3, streaming on Max

Where Olive Trees Weep, directed by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo (2024) (https://whereolivetreesweep.com/)

Bad Faith, directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones (2024), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

El Paisa, directed by Daniel Eduvijes Carrera (2023), PBS Short Film Festival

Boca Chica, directed by Ai Vuong and Samuel Diaz Fernandez (2024), PBS Short Film Festival

 

Colman Domingo (left) and Clarence Maclin in Sing Sing

Documentary series on champion Simone Biles


Sing Sing, directed by Greg Kwedar (2023)

Simone Biles Rising limited series, directed by Katie Walsh (2024), streaming on Netflix

Skywalkers: A Love Story, directed by Jeff Zimbalist (2024), streaming on Netflix

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lakhpa Sherpa, directed by Lucy Walker (2024), streaming on Netflix

 

Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color
 
Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, A Discovery of Witches

Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color by Lorraine Monteagut, PhD (Chicago Review Press, 2022)

Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, NPR, streaming from August 7

Daughters, directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton (2024), streaming on Netflix

Lift, directed by David Peterson (2022), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

A Discovery of Witches (2018-2022), streaming on Netflix

The Bear by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press, 2020)

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, Brooklyn Museum, September 13-January 19, 2025

Get to Know the Misunderstood Canada Goose, directed by Karsten Wall, New York Times Op-Docs

 

Shogun's Hiroyuki Sanada (left) and Anna Sawai

 

Shogun limited series (2024), streaming on Hulu

Robert Smithson at Dia: Spiral Jetty by SandenWolff (2024)

Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala at Asia Society through January 5, 2025


My Book-of-the-Year from Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Penguin Random House, 2024)

The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt (2024)

Apple Killed Albums. Now It Wants to Rank Them, The Culture Desk podcast with Wesley Morris and Eric Hynes, The New York Times

Ali Wong: Single Lady, directed by Ali Wong (2024), streaming on Netflix

 

Skeleton Architecture's improv (photo: Eva Yaa Asantewaa)

Prelude 2024: Skeleton Architecture, CUNY Graduate Center, October 16

For Day of the Dead, a Burst of Flowers to Honor the Departed, directed by Cesár Martinez Barba, Op-Docs, The New York Times, November 1

Conclave, directed by Edward Berger (2024)

Anora, directed by Sean Baker (2024)

Emilia Pérez, directed by Jacques Audiard (2024), streaming on Netflix

The Piano Lesson, directed by Malcolm Washington (2024), streaming on Netflix

Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu (2024)

 

Marlon James
Colman Domingo in The Madness

Ebony Obsidian (l) as Lena Derriecott King (r) in Netflix's
The Six Triple Eight


GNX by Kendrick Lamar (PG Lang and Interscope Records, 2024)

Get Millie Black limited series, written by Marlon James (2024), streaming on Max

The Madness limited series, directed by Clement Virgo (2024), streaming on Netflix

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (Crown, 2020)

The Brothers Sun, directed by Kevin Tancharoen (2024), streaming on Netflix

Louder: The Soundtrack of Change, directed by Kristi Jacobson (2024), streaming on Max

Yacht Rock: A Rockumentary, directed by Garret Price (2024), streaming on Max

somebody somewhere, directed by Jay Duplass, Robert Cohen, and Lennon Parnham (2022-24), streaming on Max

Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert, NPR Music, December 6

Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through January 12, 2025

Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was..., directed by Hamish Hamilton, streaming on Netflix

Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín (2024), streaming on Netflix

The Equalizer, Seasons 1-3, streaming on Netflix

The Six Triple Eight, directed by Tyler Perry, streaming on Netflix

Kieran Culkin & Colman Domingo | Actors on Actors, Variety (2024), streaming on YouTube

Ronny Chieng: Love to Hate It, directed by Cameron Barnett (2024), streaming on Netflix

A Complete Unknown, directed by James Mangold (2024)

The Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross (2024)

Sunday, December 31, 2023

InfiniteBody Honor Roll 2023

 InfiniteBody Honor Roll 2023


Eva Yaa Asantewaa
 
  
Fantasia Barrino-Taylor as Celie in The Color Purple
 
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Margot Robbie in Barbie. (photo: Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros.)

 

Welcome to my annual end-of-year round-up of cultural moments--not so much a Best-Of. More of a Here's What Meant A Lot to Me!

As always, you'll find some Better-Late-Than-Never items I've caught up with--like the first one, Justin Kurzel's 2015 film, Macbeth, with its searing performances and cinematography.

I also want to acknowledge and give huge thanks for the contributions of my guest speakers for Body and Soul podcast--Lisa La Touche, devynn emory, Maxine Montilus, george emilio sanchez, Samar Haddad King, and Vicky Shick, and so many more. Catch up with this series on Spotify here.

Clearly, the 2020s continue to compete with one another for which year will be voted the most challenging. But even as our times become more dire, the arts continue to testify for human qualities and contributions still worthy of celebration and emulation.

As we approach the New Year, I wish you the clarity, strength, and courage to envision, create, and make a meaningful difference in 2024 and beyond.

Ceasefire now. Free Palestine.

-- Eva Yaa Asantewaa


Justin Kurzel's Macbeth

 

Macbeth (2015), directed by Justin Kurzel (Netflix)

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), directed by Edward Berger (Netflix)

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2022), directed by Joe Brewster and Michéle Stephenson (Sundance Film Festival 2023)

 

Danielle Deadwyler, star of Till

Roberta Flack
 

Till (2022), directed by Chinonye Chukwu (Amazon Prime Video)

American Masters: Roberta Flack, directed by Antonino D'Ambrosio (PBS)

The 1619 Project, various directors; executive produced by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Hulu)

Empire of Light, directed by Sam Mendes (HBO Max)

The Yanomami Struggle, curated by Thyago Nogueira, The Shed (February 3-April 16)

The Heisenberg Variations: Imagination, Invention, and Uncertainty, by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, February 16

Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes, directed by Peter Schnall (PBS)

 

Still from Women Talking

 

We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth, editors:  Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth (The New Press, 2022)

The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves (Netflix)

Women Talking, directed by Sarah Polley (2022)

Remember This, directed by Jeff Hutchens and Derek Goldman (PBS Great Performances)

 

left-to-right: Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, and John Abraham, Pathaan, Yash Raj Films

 

Pathaan, directed by Siddarth Anand (Amazon Prime Video)

Reggie, directed by Alexandria Stapleton (Amazon Prime Video)

Te Wheke, Atamira Dance Company, The Joyce Theater, March 29-April 2

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, The Joyce Theater, April 4-9

Next at The Kennedy Center: Ballet Hispánico’s Doña Perón, PBS, streaming April 14-May 12

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras, streaming on HBO Max

Trisha Brown Dance Company, The Joyce Theater, May 2-7

No Bears, directed by Jafar Panahi, streaming on The Criterion Channel

 

Author Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb in Turn Every Page

 

Jeremy Strong, at left, and Brian Cox in Succession

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, directed by Lizzie Gottlieb on Amazon Prime Video (2022)

John Mulaney: Baby J, directed by Alex Timbers, streaming on Netflix

Mother by Eiko Otake, Green-Wood Cemetery, May 7

Kazunori Kumagai: Tap Into The Light, Gibney, May 11-13

The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, directed by Linda Mendoza, streaming on Netflix

Top Gun: Maverick, directed by Joseph Kosinski  (2022), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Cette maison, directed by Miryam Charles (2022), streaming on The Criterion Channel

DanceAfrica 2023: Golden Ghana: Adinkra, Ananse, and Abusua, BAM, Artistic Director Abdel R. Salaam, May 26-29

Succession, created by Jesse Armstrong, streaming on HBO Max

ear for eye, directed by debbie tucker green (2021), streaming on The Criterion Channel

SciGirls Stories: Black Women in STEM, directed by Adja Gildersleve, Maya Washington, and Bianca Rhodes, streaming on PBS, June 1-29

Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, directed by James House, streaming on PBS, June 2-30

Jury Duty, directed by Jake Szymanski, streaming on Amazon Prime Video

 

L-r: Jean Millington, June Darling, and June Millington of Fanny (photo: Marita Madeloni)

 

Fanny: The Right to Rock, directed by Bobbi Jo Hart, streaming on PBS, May 22-June 19

Assembly: Center for Dialogue and Exchange in the Arts, Danspace Project, June 9-10

Purple, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, Lincoln Center's Summer for the City, June 9-25

Open Working Rehearsal, The Met Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with Angel Blue and Russell Thomas, Carnegie Hall, June 22

 


Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Max)
 
The film Nimona, adapted from ND Stevenson's 2015 graphic novel

Vir Das: Landing, directed by Vir Das, streaming on Netflix

Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman,  streaming on Max

Call Me Kate, directed by Lorna Tucker, streaming on Netflix

Nimona, directed by Troy Quane and Nick Bruno, streaming on Netflix

Not My Enemy, directed by Kehinde Ishangi (2022), streaming on Vimeo

 


 
Authors Anita Kopacz (above) and Viola Davis

Shallow Waters by Anita Kopacz (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

Finding Me by Viola Davis (Harper Collins, 2022) 

Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan

 

Kit Conner (left) and Joe Locke of Heartstopper

Heartstopper Season 2, streaming on Netflix

The Lincoln Lawyer, Seasons 1-2, streaming on Netflix

Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig (2023)

The Half-God of Rainfall, by Inua Ellams, directed by Taibi Magar, at New York Theatre Workshop, July 14-August 20

Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity, directed by Dorsay Alavi, streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India 200 BCE-400 CE., Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 21 -November 13

Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente, The New Museum, June 29-September 17

María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, Brooklyn Museum, September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024

The Blue Caftan, directed by Miryam Touzani (2022), streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel

Lupin (Season 3), streaming on Netflix

 

David Byrne of Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense

Edisa Weeks in 3 Rites: Liberty


Stop Making Sense (Restored), directed by Jonathan Demme

3 Rites: Liberty, by Delirious Dances/Edisa Weeks, October 12-15

Silver Dollar Road, directed by Raoul Peck, streaming on Amazon Prime Video


Performer Ty Defoe

Author Héctor Tobar

Embracing Duality: Modern Indigenous Culture (starring Halluci Nation, Martha Redbone, and Ty Defoe), Next at The Kennedy Center, PBS

Deadloch, written by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Mythsd of "Latino," by Héctor Tobar (MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)

Nyad, directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, streaming on Netflix

The Bear (Season 2), streaming on Hulu

 


Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin in Rustin, streaming on Netflix

Stamped from the Beginning, directed by Roger Ross Williams, streaming on Netflix

Community of Parting, directed by Jane Jin Kaisen (2019), Vimeo

South to Black Power, directed by Sam Pollard and Llewellyn M. Smith (2023), Max

Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper (2023)

Danzantes del Alba, Teatro Línea de Sombra, NYU Skirball Center, December 3

Lesbian Poetic Traditions: Judy Grahn, Julie R. Enszer, JP Howard, and Alicia Mountain, Live from NYPL, December 6

 

Beyoncé

Park Eun-bin of Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Teo Yoo and Greta Lee of Past Lives

 

Renaissance, directed by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (2003)

Leave the World Behind, directed by Sam Esmail (2023), steaming on Netflix

She Said, directed by Maria Schrader (2022), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Julian (2022) and Moth (2023), films by Kate Weare and Jack Flame Sorokin

Past Lives, directed by Celine Song (2023), streaming on Amazon Prime Video

The Color Purple, directed by Blitz Bazawule (2023)

Extraordinary Attorney Woo, directed by Yoo In-shik, streaming on Netflix from 2022

Visible Mending, directed by Samantha Moore, The New York Times, Op-Docs. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/opinion/knitting-healing.html

American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson (2023)

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