Saul Williams

"After four years of living abroad, Saul Williams returned to the United States, his head twirling with thoughts on race, class, gender, finance, freedom -- everything that makes up our country." -- Back cover.

A Manhattan psychiatrist, who thinks he's seen it all until he's assigned to analyze Prot, a psychiatric patient who claims to be from a distant planet called K-PAX. He is convinced that Prot is "a convincing delusional, " but his cynicism turns to open-minded fascination as Prot's case reveals a combination of otherworldly insight and all-too-human trauma, prompting an earthbound explanation for Prot's allegedly alien origins.

Multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman bring their unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision. It is a sci-fi-punk-musical that's a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that they have been exploring in their work, including on Williams' 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. It takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their...

After being diagnosed with ALS, former professional football player, Steve Gleason, finds out his wife is pregnant and begins making a video diary for his unborn son. Steve chose to live with purpose for his son, wife, and others with ALS.

Before Russell Simmons' Def Poety Jam, Slamnation captured the cutthroat world of spoken-word poetry. The film follows Saul Williams and three other top poets as they make their way to the National Poetry Slam, the Super Bowl of poetry.

"In a village outside Dakar, the gods, or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Until nightfall, the film follows him making his goodbyes to those around him, his family, his friends, his lover, his children, his wife. Initially fêted by his community with an enthusiasm tainted by melancholy, Satché, the one chosen to disappear, soon finds himself set apart from those closest to him, in beautiful scenes that...

Sun Ra is known to most better as a musician than a poet, even though throughout his long career he described himself as a composer of both. Recited by a multigenerational array of artists, My Words are Music is an assembly of prose that comes to fruition through chosen selections of Sun Ra's poetry -- simultaneously propelling Ra's message into the now while honoring its essence.