Kahlil Joseph

Kahlil Davis, known professionally as Kahlil Joseph, is an American filmmaker, music video director and video artist. Joseph is known for creating "intellectually and emotionally dense short films" that center on the experience of African Americans in the United States.

Lemonade (2016)

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Beyoncé  •  Kahlil Joseph  •  Jonas Åkerlund  •  Mark Romanek  •  Dikayl Rimmasch  •  Todd Tourso  •  Melina Matsoukas
CAST:  Beyoncé  •  Serena Williams  •  Zendaya  •  Quvenzhané Wallis

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Beyoncé  •  Kahlil Joseph  •  Jonas Åkerlund  •  Mark Romanek  •  Dikayl Rimmasch  •  Todd Tourso  •  Melina Matsoukas
CAST:  Beyoncé  •  Serena Williams  •  Zendaya  •  Quvenzhané Wallis

Arcade Fire - The Reflektor Tapes (2015)

Arcade Fire’s first feature film is called 'The Reflektor Tapes'. The project is “a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history.”  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Win Butler  •  Régine Chassagne  •  Sarah Neufeld  •  Richard Reed Parry

Arcade Fire’s first feature film is called 'The Reflektor Tapes'. The project is “a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history.”  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Win Butler  •  Régine Chassagne  •  Sarah Neufeld  •  Richard Reed Parry

good kid, m.A.A.d city (2014)

A 15-minute piece on view at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, "m.A.A.d." is hypnotic: a stirring, cinematic tribute to the city of Compton, and a beguiling non-linear paean to everyday moments of life, death and magic — all set to the textured, often ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Kendrick Lamar

A 15-minute piece on view at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, "m.A.A.d." is hypnotic: a stirring, cinematic tribute to the city of Compton, and a beguiling non-linear paean to everyday moments of life, death and magic — all set to the textured, often ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Kendrick Lamar

The Mirror Between Us (2012)

Two young women embark on a dream-like adventure through the islands of the Maldives after an event turned both their worlds upside down.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Nicole Beharie  •  Dan'ee Doty

Two young women embark on a dream-like adventure through the islands of the Maldives after an event turned both their worlds upside down.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Nicole Beharie  •  Dan'ee Doty

Sampha: Process (2017)

Process is a striking, avant-garde portrait of Sampha using documentary-style footage to depict his roots in Morden, South London, and Freetown, Sierra Leone.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Sampha  •  Liran Nathan

Process is a striking, avant-garde portrait of Sampha using documentary-style footage to depict his roots in Morden, South London, and Freetown, Sierra Leone.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Sampha  •  Liran Nathan

Until the Quiet Comes (2013)

Set to a track from Flying Lotus’s album and shot primarily in Nickerson Gardens, this short features the astonishingly beautiful dancing of Storyboard P. Winner of Sundance’s Special Jury Award for short film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Solomon Gibbs  •  Storyboard P.  •  Flying Lotus

Set to a track from Flying Lotus’s album and shot primarily in Nickerson Gardens, this short features the astonishingly beautiful dancing of Storyboard P. Winner of Sundance’s Special Jury Award for short film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Solomon Gibbs  •  Storyboard P.  •  Flying Lotus

Wildcat (2013)

Filmed in Grayson, Oklahoma, Wildcat meditatively combines documentation of a Black rodeo subculture with an abstract portrait of Joseph’s aunt who helped found the event.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
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Filmed in Grayson, Oklahoma, Wildcat meditatively combines documentation of a Black rodeo subculture with an abstract portrait of Joseph’s aunt who helped found the event.  (more)

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Black Mary (2017)

Commissioned by Tate Modern, Black Mary beautifully fuses Joseph’s documentary, performance, fiction, and music videos in a single, breathtaking presentation of the singer Alice Smith.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
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Commissioned by Tate Modern, Black Mary beautifully fuses Joseph’s documentary, performance, fiction, and music videos in a single, breathtaking presentation of the singer Alice Smith.  (more)

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BLKNWS (2018)

A conceptual and collaborative approach to contemporary journalism and entrepreneurship. It uses media as an ongoing work of art in the form of a two-channel video installation. The project explores the dimensionality of the news media format, interrogating the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Amandla Stenberg

A conceptual and collaborative approach to contemporary journalism and entrepreneurship. It uses media as an ongoing work of art in the form of a two-channel video installation. The project explores the dimensionality of the news media format, interrogating the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
CAST:  Amandla Stenberg

Circus Maximus (2023)

Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of his highly anticipated upcoming album "UTOPIA." A surreal and psychedelic journey, uniting a collective of visionary filmmakers from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harmony Korine  •  Nicolas Winding Refn  •  Gaspar Noé  •  Kahlil Joseph  •  Travis Scott  •  Valdimar Jóhannsson
CAST:  Travis Scott

Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of his highly anticipated upcoming album "UTOPIA." A surreal and psychedelic journey, uniting a collective of visionary filmmakers from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harmony Korine  •  Nicolas Winding Refn  •  Gaspar Noé  •  Kahlil Joseph  •  Travis Scott  •  Valdimar Jóhannsson
CAST:  Travis Scott

Untitled BLKNWS® - The Feature Film

Filmmaker, music video director, and video artist Kahlil Joseph is set to make his feature directorial debut with BLKNWS® – The Feature Film (working title), an adaptation of of his video exhibition of the same name.  (more)

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Filmmaker, music video director, and video artist Kahlil Joseph is set to make his feature directorial debut with BLKNWS® – The Feature Film (working title), an adaptation of of his video exhibition of the same name.  (more)

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Fly Paper (2018)

A rich and polyphonic portrait of black art and culture in New York City  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
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A rich and polyphonic portrait of black art and culture in New York City  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kahlil Joseph
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