{"id":176417719,"date":"2013-05-02T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176417719"},"modified":"2013-05-02T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:16:56","slug":"video-wildcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2013\/05\/02\/video-wildcat\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Wildcat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, April 28, 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wildcat-01.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176417720\" alt=\"wildcat 01\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wildcat-01.png\" width=\"680\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wildcat-01.png 680w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wildcat-01-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"> WILDCAT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<h1><iframe src='http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/media\/embedvideo?itemid=2993&issueid=2423' width='500px' height='315px' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/day\/2013\/4\/28\/2993\/shorts-on-sundays--wildcat\"><\/a><\/p><\/h1>\n<h1><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">Kahlil Joseph&#8217;s Film Meditates on the Origins of an All-Black Rodeo in Oklahoma<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">A dreamlike narrative binds cowboy and an angelic specter clad in white in director Kahlil Joseph&#8217;s exploration of a little-known African-American rodeo subculture. Joseph, who is part of the Los Angeles-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/the-most.com\/\" rel=\"external\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What Matters Most\u00a0<\/span><\/a>film collective, visited the annual August rodeo in the sparsely populated Oklahoma town of Grayson (previously Wildcat), an event that attracts African-American bull riders, barrel racers and cowgirls from all over the Midwest and southern USA. He set out to celebrate the origins of the rodeo by paying respect to the spirit of Aunt Janet, a member of the family who founded the event, passed away last year and is embodied as the young girl in the film. \u201cBlack people are light years more advanced than the ideas and images that circulate would have you believe. The spaces we control and exist are my ground zero for filming, at least so far, and there are opportunities for me to tap into the energy,\u201d says Joseph who has also made films for musicians including Shabazz Palaces and Seu Jorge. \u201cSo an all-black town with an all-black rodeo in the American heartland was a kind of vortex or portal through which I could actually show this.\u201d\u00a0<i>Wildcat<\/i>\u00a0is scored by experimental musician Flying Lotus, who has previously collaborated with Joseph on a short to accompany his 2012 album<i>\u00a0Until the Quiet Comes<\/i>, which is showing during Sundance London this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/day\/2013\/4\/28\/2993\/shorts-on-sundays--wildcat\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/day\/2013\/4\/28\/2993\/shorts-on-sundays&#8211;wildcat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sunday, April 28, 2013 WILDCAT Kahlil Joseph&#8217;s Film Meditates on the Origins of an All-Black Rodeo in Oklahoma A dreamlike narrative binds cowboy and an angelic specter clad in white in director Kahlil Joseph&#8217;s exploration of a little-known African-American rodeo subculture. Joseph, who is part of the Los Angeles-based\u00a0What Matters Most\u00a0film collective, visited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176417719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176417719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176417719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176417757,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176417719\/revisions\/176417757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176417719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176417719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176417719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}