Cyrus Moussavi

Poet, musician, visual artist, and Afrofuturist Moor Mother roams a hallucinatory Mojave Desert alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Moor Mother visits the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra HQ and plays with jazz luminaries and elders, including Henry “The Skipper” Franklin, Michael Session, and Maia.

Raw Music International followed the musicians in Odessa, who had experienced the days earlier this year when pro-democracy protests led to the impeachment of the Russian-leading president, to the days when the fighting hit home this year in the Black Sea port. The documentary shows two of the three artists shifting to help people affected as the conflict escalates, such as bringing medical supplies to those harmed in the fighting.

Lonnie Holley, a "self-taught African American artist" and dimensional traveler, attempts to sneak off the slave ship America.

Brother Theotis Taylor harvested turpentine, preached, and sang spirituals in a sublime falsetto that made him the pride of South Georgia. Driven by a divine vision, his son, Hubert, filmed it all. Forty years later, Somebody’s Gone, a new feature-length documentary, that completes the story of a great artist through the archive of his prodigal son.