Tactile Filmmaking Workshop | Splice it Up: Digital Edition

Salute the next generation of Los Angeles filmmakers at the Academy Museum. The Academy Museum Tea Room hosts a screening of short films selected by the museum’s Teen Council, who challenged their peers to create a short film highlighting an aspect in their community they feel passionate about, or that they feel needs attention.

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The directorial debut of Ernest R. Dickerson, who previously lensed Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989) and Malcolm X (1992), trains its sights on four Black teenagers in Harlem. While Q (Omar Epps) is obsessed with becoming a DJ and the “juice” it would bring to his reputation, ringleader Raheem (Khalil Kain) has bigger scores in mind. When a seemingly low-stakes bodega robbery goes awry, bullied Bishop (Tupac Shakur) allows the allure of power and violence get to his head. Dickerson’s confident crime film is steeped in neorealism and noir traditions and fuels its narrative with ‘90s hip-hop—Too $hort, Salt-N-Pepa, Fabulous Five Inc., Cypress Hill—buoyed by an electric performance from Tupac Shakur.