a kind of vortex or portal through which I could actually show this

May 3, 2013 11:43 AM

Wildcat, a collaboration between filmmaker Kahlil Joseph and prolific musician Flying Lotus, explores the "little-known African-American rodeo subculture," in Grayson, Oklahoma.

The two previously collaborated on the Sundance selected short Until the Quiet Comes. His latest music video Tiny Tortures stars Elijah Wood.

Flying lotus previously.

posted by Potomac Avenue (6 comments total)

There are rodeos for Mexican, African American, Aborginal, and GLBTQ people--and localised rodeos often work as feeder sites for the nationals--esp. in PBR events. The National Finals Rodeo and the Indian Rodeo are the same week this year in Vegas.

I don't want to downplay the real difficulities that occur in these spaces, but often in the history of working class rodeos, the important bit is if you can do the work, and not other questions of identity--so growing up queer and going to rodeos, it felt safer than growing up queer and spending time in the suburbs.

I know more about queer rodeo, but the tension between the work that needs to be done, and the people doing the work, esp. in the south is really complicated--esp. in the class solidiatray that is often disrupted by agitiating middle class racists. Beautiful doc and impt sibject.
posted by PinkMoose at 12:49 PM on May 3, 2013 [2 favorites]

"Wildcat was written in kind of an obsolete vernacular. Wildcat...pkow. Okay, I'm gonna go."
posted by resurrexit at 1:23 PM on May 3, 2013 [1 favorite]

Until the quiet comes
posted by whyareyouatriangle at 2:26 PM on May 3, 2013

(not reading closely today)
posted by whyareyouatriangle at 2:27 PM on May 3, 2013

The video for Until the Quiet Comes is just fantastic and brilliant and beautiful.

Even as a fan I'm can't keep current with everything Flying Lotus is doing; he just keeps turning up everywhere-- collaborating with Herbie Hancock, playing live, releasing rap mixtapes, running his record label. The man's a force of nature.
posted by jokeefe at 5:35 PM on May 3, 2013 [1 favorite]

Whoa, Grayson is down the highway from me. I will watch this when I have my netbook, thanks.
posted by dragonplayer at 8:15 AM on May 4, 2013