OUT / SIDE OF TIME
Artwork Details
- Title: OUT / SIDE OF TIME
- Artist: Jenn Nkiru, b. 1987 (British)
- Date: 2021
- Medium: Five-channel digital video, black-and-white and color, sound, 6 min.
- Classification: Miscellaneous
- Credit Line: Courtesy the artist, commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021
Abbreviated film credits:
OUT / SIDE OF TIME a film by Jenn Nkiru
Featuring Adepero Oduye and Abiodun Oyewole. With Zainab Jah, Emir Filz, Avery Magras, Adyan Copes, Apryl Pinkett, Nia Madison Thompson.
Artist + Director - Jenn Nkiru
Cinematographer - Pierce Robinson
Producer - Rachel Watanabe-Batton
Composer - Peter Adjaye
Production Designer - Toni Barton
Costume Designer - David F. Zambrana
Casting - Kristen Paladino
Hair Stylist - Jennifer Lord
Makeup Artist - Koni Bennett
Editor - Kit Wells
Colorist - Tim Smith
A co-production of Ummah Chroma Creative Partners, Iconoclast, & Mothership.
Executive produced by Nanette Nelms & Mishka Brown.
Associate produced by Aya Kaido &Seika Paradeis.
Edit by Final Cut
Online & Grade by Cheat
TV Fabricated by Moey Inc., Brooklyn
Special Thanks: Hannah Beachler, Arthur Lewis, Blackstar Projects, Weeksville Heritage Center and the City of New York, Celedonia Jones, Mareia M Williams and Andrew Thomas Williams IV, The Orlukaraka Family.
Commissioned as part of the original work by Hannah Beachler Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room commissioned by The Met 2021.
Additional support provided by a gift from Arthur Lewis and Hau Nguyen.
Shot on location in Weeksville, NY.
Nkiru LLC © MMXXI
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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