Not a Lot to Fear
Short Films by Ari Marcopoulos
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Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 3 mins | 2021
A multi-generational portrait starring skateboarder, rapper, record producer and artist Sage Elsesser, his mother and grandmother, Marcopoulos’s short film bears witness to the bonds between three eras of Black America, with the elder matriarch, regally perched in an oversized leather armchair, serving as the fulcrum for a moment of familial bonding, all clasped hands and warm, tender vibes.
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Sketches for #PUNK
Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 15 mins | 2019
The rhythms of tribal dance and street basketball commune in this diasporic summit, in which studio footage of famed Zimbabwe-born, New York–based choreographer Nora Chipaumire is intercut with teenagers hitting jump shots on a Manhattan court. The cit... -
My Hands Are Full
Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 2 mins | 2020
A prime example of Marcopoulos’s up-close-and-personal portraiture, this unguarded slice of storytelling brio catches the Houston-born, Nigerian American rapper Maxo freestyling alone on a sofa, dragging on a spliff and spitting infectious rhymes while—... -
Roma
Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 14 mins | 2016
Evoking the spirit of postwar neo-realism, Marcopoulos sketches an impression of the Italian capital with unvarnished detail, capturing the quotidian life of a city where past and present collide. A lone roller-skater pirouettes beside an ancient canal...
