Shahkeem Williams is an artist and experimental documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His work combines interviews, archival material, academic research, autobiographical expression, and performance to poetically explore themes of trauma and healing, labor, and abolitionist activism across generations. His films have been screened at festivals and broadcast on television both in the United States and internationally.
_Speakn’ Trane_ is a visual conversation that considers one of the great masterpieces of music through the eyes of its creator. Mirroring the dialogue at its core, it mixes 16mm film and digital images, performance and nature footage to illustrate the revolutionary themes and ideas that would combine to craft the album _A Love Supreme_: the generative practice of meditation, the creative potent...
_Speakn’ Trane_ is a visual conversation that considers one of the great masterpieces of music through the eyes of its creator. Mirroring the dialogue at its core, it mixes 16mm film and digital images, performance and nature footage to illustrate the revolutionary themes and ideas that would combine to craft the album _A Love Supreme_: the generative practice of meditation, the creative potent...