Films Jenkins
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Chlorophyl
Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins returned to his hometown of Miami for this mood-drenched look at love and alienation, created for the city’s Borscht Film Festival. Adrift in the gleaming white void of a new apartment, a young woman talks to an absent lover on the phone; later, she attends a...Watch Movie
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My Josephine
The cultural diversity of his subjects, the intimacy of his direction and the formal beauty of his filmmaking are present in Barry Jenkins' very first film, a short he made while a student at Florida State University. It was made after the events of September 11, 2001, and inspired by a sign he...Watch Movie
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Little Brown Boy
For his follow-up to MY JOSEPHINE, Barry Jenkins turned to an issue closer to his Florida home in the early 2000s: the spate of young black boys being tried as adults for the gunshot deaths of other kids. But this is no crime drama. There is no trial in this short film and the...Watch Movie
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Tall Enough
Love knows no borders in this stylish snapshot of interracial coupledom. Two Brooklyn photographers (she, African-American; he, Chinese-American) meet at Bloomingdale's (albeit one located in China). Their romance blossoms and endures back home amidst a poetical widescreen mix of images both...Watch Movie
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King's Gym
Oakland, California's "boxing gym of champions" is showcased here, its historic walls lined with posters for matches boasting past regulars from George Foreman and Joe Frazier to Gina Guidi. Though the crowded environ may be one of sweaty, noisy machismo, director Barry Jenkins' surprisingly...Watch Movie
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A Young Couple
John and Jenn are young, in love and living together. But this is no dreamy tale of magical romance from MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY director Barry Jenkins. The filmmaker turns his camera on his friends to learn what it actually takes to share a life. As he explores the shared space of their tiny San...Watch Movie
