Okwui Okpokwasili

Okwui Okpokwasili

Born: August 6, 1972
in The Bronx, New York, U.S
Okwui Okpokwasili (born August 6, 1972) is an Igbo-Nigerian American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer. Her multidisciplinary performances draw upon her training in theatre, and she describes her work as at "the intersection of theatre, dance, and the installation." Several of her works relate to historical events in Nigeria. She is especially interested in subjects of cultural and historical memory and how the Western imagination perceives of African bodies.

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Movies for Okwui Okpokwasili...

Keep Looking
Title: Keep Looking
Released: January 25, 2024
Type: Movie
A young filmmaker named Domino travels from the UK to New York City to hunt down funding for her new film. Harkening back to classic counter-cultural Big Apple films of the 70s and 80s, Keep Looking has a loose, jazzy feel that gives this simple narrative a hip freshness.
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The Exorcist: Believer
Title: The Exorcist: Believer
Character: Dr. Beehibe
Released: October 4, 2023
Type: Movie
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.
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Remote
Title: Remote
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
Finding new cinematic language to express the desire for physical contact in our increasingly isolated, mediated, and highly consumer-driven environments, Remote follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.
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Master
Title: Master
Character: Custodial Worker
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.
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Altostratus: An Allegory
Title: Altostratus: An Allegory
Released: June 29, 2020
Type: Movie
Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.
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It's Not About Jimmy Keene
Title: It's Not About Jimmy Keene
Character: Aliza Bethea
Released: January 29, 2019
Type: Movie
The police shooting of an unarmed black teen causes friction within a mixed-race Los Angeles family. Ivan, the youngest sibling, is stalked by visions of Jimmy Keene’s floating corpse. Torn between the opposing worldviews of his two older sisters, Ivan searches for his voice while the family divisions heighten after the parents take sides.
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Madeline's Madeline
Title: Madeline's Madeline
Character: Nurse, KK
Released: August 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
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Bronx Gothic
Title: Bronx Gothic
Character: Herself
Released: July 12, 2017
Type: Movie
From director Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY) comes an electrifying portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her acclaimed one-woman show, BRONX GOTHIC. Rooted in memories of her childhood, Okwui – who’s worked with conceptual artists like Ralph Lemon and Julie Taymor – fuses dance, song, drama, and comedy to create a mesmerizing space in which audiences can engage with a story about two 12-year-old black girls coming of age in the 1980s. With intimate vérité access to Okwui and her audiences off the stage, BRONX GOTHIC allows for unparalleled insight into her creative process as well as the complex social issues embodied in it.
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4:44
Title: 4:44
Character: Dancer
Released: July 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Centers on two performances; in the first, dancers Storyboard P and Okwui Okpokwasili twist and twine their bodies in a moving two-part dance of desire, pain, and regret. In the second, present-day hip-hop royalty Beyoncé and Jay-Z serenade each other as part of a live performance. The work accompanies Jay-Z's track of the same name, widely viewed as an apology to his wife, Beyoncé for his infidelity and emotional failures as a husband. A collaboration between Arthur Jafa, Malik Sayeed, and Baltimore-based Elissa Blount Moorhead, the video uses cinematography, choreography, and found footage to explore complex and constricted notions of masculinity in an insightful and moving tapestry of Black love and life.
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Her Composition
Title: Her Composition
Character: Kim
Released: October 30, 2015
Type: Movie
A college music student turns to prostitution to make a little cash and look for inspiration, as she has blocked on a major musical composition that she must create in order to graduate.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Queen Hippolyta
Released: September 8, 2014
Type: Movie
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Gordon Kemp's Lawyer
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
Title: How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores loss and transcendence experienced in human partnerships. Reflecting on his relationship with 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener Walter Carter as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction classic, Solaris, Lemon and 6 dancers create a performance which arcs from turbulent physicality to restorative grace.
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I Am Legend
Title: I Am Legend
Character: Infected
Released: December 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
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The Hoax
Title: The Hoax
Character: Malika
Released: October 14, 2006
Type: Movie
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
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The Interpreter
Title: The Interpreter
Character: Tour Guide
Released: April 8, 2005
Type: Movie
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
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The Woman in the Yard
Title: The Woman in the Yard
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Plot TBA.