Killa season youtube movie#

Killa season youtube movie#

But here's the thing: Killa Season is a very good, incredibly weird, and important movie and Killa Cam knew exactly what he was doing with it. Hell, they're ushering in some new cinematic scene! When one of the most word-nerdy, brightest, and bizarre rappers of the 2000s does a warts and all emotional epic about the ins and outs of hustling, he has crapped out some kind of unmitigated disaster. My takeaway from all of this: When a bunch of nerdy white kids make shaky, hand-held pictures about parties and drinking and feelingz bro, they're given the benefit of the doubt. And don't tell your local real hip-hop head, but the fiction-meets-veritГ© style of these movies has more in common with a rap classic like Wild Style than the supposedly вЂњrespectableвЂќ hip-hop movies with big budgets and crisp cinematography. Some of these flicks, like Three 6 Mafia's Choices: The Movie or, shit man, Baller Blockin' itself, are solid genre affairs. Not that there's anything wrong with straight-to-video rap movies (which, arrived around the same time as not all that different no-budget indie blabbers from guys like Kevin Smith), mind you. Just another вЂњhoodвЂќ movie in the Baller Blockin' mode. For the most part, it was dismissed as sloppy and nonsensical. There were ten screenings in New York and a couple weeks later, it went to home video. That same year, Harlem rapper Cam'ron released an on-the-cheap, two-hour and eight-minute, meandering autobiographical feature called Killa Season. Katz's plotless snooze was heralded as part of a then burgeoning вЂњmumblecoreвЂќ movement spearheaded by young eager directors embracing the freedom of digital video and write-what-you-know earnestness. It debuted at South by Southwest, played many other festivals, and received praise from Art Forum, the New York Times, and plenty of other fancy enough publications. In 2006, Portland filmmaker Aaron Katz released Dance Party, USA, a 70-minute, deeply personal, heavily improvised, little movie. Eight years ago today Cam'ron's hood classic film Killa Season dropped and in celebration, here's Brandon Soderberg's take on the movie from True Laurels Vol.