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Jenn Nkiru is a Nigerian-British artist and director. She is known for directing the music video for Beyoncé's "Brown Skin Girl" and for being the second unit director of Ricky Saiz’s video for Beyoncé and Jay-Z, "APESHIT" which was released in 2018.
Jenn Nkiru is a British Nigerian filmmaker who received her MFA in film directing from Howard University, thus continuing a long lineage of image makers such as Ernest Dickerson, Arthur Jafa, Malik Sayeed, and Bradford Young who studied under the mentorship of Haile Gerima.
Jenn Nkiru is known for Rebirth Is Necessary (2017), Black Is King (2020) and As Told To G/D Thyself (2019).
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May 24, 2019 · Filmmaker and writer Jenn Nkiru recently released a “social anthropological” experimental short film entitled BLACK TO TECHNO that animates, as she puts it, the “cosmic archaeology” of...
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May 8, 2017 · Director Jenn Nkiru’s En Vogue, an experimental, high-concept, bold short film documenting the potent vitality of New York’s voguing and ballroom subculture, marked the arrival of an exciting new voice. Possessing a visually striking, poetic style, Nkiru’s work captures stories of the socially marginalised through the lenses of race ...
Oct 9, 2019 · Self-determined and self-funded, British-Nigerian Jenn Nkiru enrolled in Howard University’s MFA in Film in 2009, where the artist and director would meet Bradford Young and Arthur Jafa.
Jenn Nkiru is an artist and filmmaker. Pushed through an Afro-surrealist lens, her practice is grounded in the history of Black music and the aesthetics of experimental film and international art cinema.
