Additional Details
Runtime:
1 Hr. 46 Min.
Rating:
Release Year:
2024
Director:
Contessa Gayles
Producer:
Richie Reseda, David Felix Sutcliffe, Contessa Gayles
Screenwriter:
James "JJ'88" Jacobs, Contessa Gayles
Cinematographer:
Contessa Gayles, Michelle Kwong
Editor:
Contessa Gayles, Princess A. Hairston, Rafe Scobey-Thal
A documentary visual album, SONGS FROM THE HOLE follows James "JJ'88" Jacobs through a musical opus of hip-hop and soul, inspired by his innermost struggles as a person who has both committed and experienced violent harm, as he serves a double-life prison sentence. The film interweaves the collective storytelling of its non-fiction participants with imagined representations of memories, dreams and spiritual dialogues set to Jacobs' original music.
- Following the 4/21 and 4/22 screenings there will be a Q&A with Richie Reseda (producer), JJ'88 (participant, writer)