Karen Miranda Augustine

Mainstream Black music videos often present highly sexualized imagery of Black women. Against the backdrop of The New 2 Live Crew videos, the video streeter begs the question: What does "woman" mean to the average male music consumer, promoter, DJ and MC?

Featuring dubbz/poet/at/large Clifton Joseph, "Postmodern Minstrel" uses the pontifical diatribe of Joseph's "Reverend Swami" and his church of "conscious" slickness to illustrate the regressive race, class and gender stereotypes celebrated within the talk-show circuit -- specifically that of Jerry Springer.

Skett (as in skettel): West Indian term for a slack, easy woman. A silent, experiential short looking at the impact of fatherlessness on female sexual compulsion.