Ayoka Chenzira Movies

A love story between a Jamaican immigrant and his wife that turns bittersweet when the search for the American dream goes awry.

A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her...

A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs his "immigrant folktales" using traditional lore...

A woman struggles to free herself from the "Keeper of Memory" in this surreal odyssey.

A father struggles to fully embrace the life and death of his gay son.

An experimental short film with themes of machinery, modernization and the human form. Produced as part of a program sponsored by Austrian machinery...

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in...

The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-returned show-biz aunt.

Openly addressing sensitive issues of slavery and the African diaspora, this animated short traces the origins of funk, soul, and rhythm from the...

A coming-of-age story that features a reluctant young woman who accidentally falls to Earth and ends up a superhero. Originally conceived as a...

Through interviews with survivors of sexual abuse, parents, social workers, community activists, and abusers thmselves, this piece explores the...

Chenzira's 1979 tribute to dancer-choreographer Syvilla Fort.