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Black Moses Barbie #3 of 3

j&p — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:55:11 +0000

Finally – and just in time for Kwanzaa – the last of the 3 commercials for fictional toy “Black Moses Barbie”

This mock commercial for a Black Moses Barbie toy is the 3rd & final in a series of 3 celebrating the legacy of Harriet Tubman. It is part of Pierre Bennu’s larger series of paintings and films deconstructing and re-envisioning images of people of color in commercial & pop culture.

Exittheapple On NPR

j&p — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:57:19 +0000

Click the pic to hear our recent interview on NPR’s Maryland Morning – we talk about film, family, and the future! (ok, not so much the future. but because of the rules of alliteration, we had to say that.)

This interview was taped before a Live! Studio! Audience! immediately prior to a screening of a selection of Exittheapple short films. It was part of a monthly series of interviews with Baltimore/Maryland filmmakers called Screen Test. Learn more at the link!

I Will Not Be Defeated – animated music video

j&p — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:59:57 +0000

I hope this awesome mantra of a song and its accompanying animation are as inspirational to you as they were to me while i worked on this piece to the exclusion of almost all else in my life for the past 3 months. (lol) For more info on the musician/songwriter, visit http://stevenwesleyguiles.com

I Will Not Be Defeated from pierre bennu on Vimeo.

the FINAL ‘Talk Back Theatre’ of the YEAR!

j&p — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:46:53 +0000

TALKBACK THEATER – interactive community cinema
Second Saturdays @ WESTNORTH Studio (September 11th)
106 W. North Ave. Baltimore MD. 21201
8-10 pm

This week we cap off the season with a selection of short film and avant-garde music videos. The program will include many of Pierre Bennu’s award-winning shorts. Including the clip of the soon to re-released “Red Bone Guerillas” & and very special NEVER seen before episode of the series “story” that was too crazy to post.

Snacks will be provided!
come yell at the screen with your friends one last time

for more info call: 410 962 1475

“Lemongrass Blues”

j&p — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:56:00 +0000

I just found a lost episode of our on going series “STORY” please enjoy & feel free to share.

exittheapple vaults PART 1

j&p — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:20:32 +0000

What I’m about to do here might seem simple to you but for me is extremely hard. I have a habit of burying or throwing away things that are old or that I feel are not polished & perfect. The danger in that is you might loose perspective on what you have accomplished. You also run the risk of burning out & feeling you constantly need to start from zero. Despite the numerous awards I won for this as a teen I have not screened this in several years and as I write this my stomach is hurting at the thought of you seeing it but I need to do this for me. Thank you for the opportunity to be courageous. Pierre Bennu.

Negative Images (1992) from pierre bennu on Vimeo.

Your imaginary friend pierre.

j&p — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:53:44 +0000

I’ve been doing some soul searching, I’m finding some good stuff. I’m being pushed reluctantly into the foreground, a place that i purposefully abandoned several years ago. However situations keep occurring where my hermit tendencies don’t serve me. I am also being informed that my style of perfectionism doesn’t serve me. My art is like a cockroach in that for every one piece of mine that you see there are about 30 that you don’t see. Growing up I used to throw away sketch books, rhyme books and journals because they were not “perfect.” It wasn’t till i got married that i really started to save my work & even then many things never saw the light of day. I learned that just because something comes easy to me doesn’t mean it lacks value. So here i am unwilling to put things out there that are not “perfect” but in desperate need to share and make room for all the new stuff. The first challenge I put to myself is to be “out there” more. I’ve decided to do so by starting a Video Blog (which i believe is called a V-log). It is tentatively titled “2 minutes with your imaginary friend Pierre!” I begin shooting later this week…see you soon..well…you’ll see me soon but you…you get it…so yeah.

“Sampling Soul”: The Mid-Term Exam

j&p — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:07:00 +0000

Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal and Grammy winning producer 9th Wonder (pictured left) are using SunMoonChild – amazing song by imani uzuri, amazing video by Pierre Bennu – as part of the midterm exam for their course, ’sampling soul.’ The course is about black cultural production and the tradition of borrowing/remixing/sampling and how it all relates to today’s legal issues of intellectual property rights and copyright law. Since YouTube just removed SunMoonChild after three years this issue cuts particularly close for us.

He’s made the midterm public on his blog to encourage a wider dialogue and wider exposure to the ideas. Stop by and give it a read, comment if you can! )

–jb.

As a DJ, an artist, a sometime teacher, and the son of an academic, I will never get tired of marveling at the intersection of HipHop and academia. It’s an honor to have my work thought of as contributing to this discussion.

–pb

Sun Moon Child…reborn

j&p — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:52 +0000

I just realized that since YouTube took down this video & i reposted a higher quality version on Vimeo that i did NOT post it here on exittheapple.com.
I was in the midst of writing an essay on “fair use” and the future of media when i found myself rehashing ideas that were already explored and discussed by those far more eloquent than myself. i will post links to their books and articles later until then take a deep breath, open your heart & eyes to this digital altar piece i created for the artist Imani Uzuri back in 2007 entitled ‘SUN MOON CHILD’

Sun Moon Child from pierre bennu on Vimeo.

“story” episode 4: grandma’s house

j&p — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:36:37 +0000