Total Runtime: 58min 29s
Content Warnings:
- Operation: Wet Paint: Flashing lights, shaky camera movement
- Flare: Flashing images, shaky camera movement, discussion of medical gaslighting and trauma
- A Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried: Discussion of gentrification
- Coming Out Autistic: Brief nudity and sexual situation (animation / not live action)
- So Hip Hop: Flashing lights
A Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried
Krip Hop Nation's Founder disabled poet/activist Leroy Moore Jr. pens a tribute to the late Blues singer Josh White Sr. and includes commentary on the gentrification of our communities nationwide.
Online Premiere
Artist Bio: Emmitt Thrower is a stroke survivor who is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, actor, activist and playwright. He was born in Arkansas and is now living in the Bronx, NY. As a senior disabled artist, he has decades of lived experience in a complicated world and brings that element to all of his creative works.
His award-winning feature documentary film entitled "Where is Hope: The Art of Murder" is available on Kanopy Streaming services in libraries, colleges and universities worldwide. The film tackles the issue of police brutality against people with disabilities. The film was in collaboration with Leroy Moore and Krip Hop Nation's disabled artists worldwide. Emmitt has collaborated on several music videos about disability issues also with Keith Jones and Leroy Moore over the past 15 years.
He is currently working on a new film series project entitled "Beyond the Limits". This is his version of Disability in the "Twilight Zone" a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror film series from a disability perspective. Creating entertainment content geared specifically for and by people with disabilities.
More about the film: The music for the video was produced by Emmy Award-Winning disabled lyricist and co-founder of Krip Hop Nation composer/activist/artist Keith Jones. Both artists have cerebral palsy and this is one of several collaborations that include disabled Filmmaker Emmitt H Thrower a stroke survivor with blindness in his left eye.
The music video was shot in LA by Erick Matuse. Gentrification has priced many people, including people with disabilities, out of their homes and out of their neighborhoods. The song laments those realities much like the Blues singer Josh White Sr. did in his songs. New York Filmmaker Emmitt Thrower who created the concept had a main goal of capturing how the forgotten disabled artists and their work have real-life influence on disabled artists/activists nationwide today. Leroy Moore Jr. continues a tradition.
Total Runtime: 58min 29s
Content Warnings:
- Operation: Wet Paint: Flashing lights, shaky camera movement
- Flare: Flashing images, shaky camera movement, discussion of medical gaslighting and trauma
- A Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried: Discussion of gentrification
- Coming Out Autistic: Brief nudity and sexual situation (animation / not live action)
- So Hip Hop: Flashing lights
A Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried
Krip Hop Nation's Founder disabled poet/activist Leroy Moore Jr. pens a tribute to the late Blues singer Josh White Sr. and includes commentary on the gentrification of our communities nationwide.
Online Premiere
Artist Bio: Emmitt Thrower is a stroke survivor who is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, actor, activist and playwright. He was born in Arkansas and is now living in the Bronx, NY. As a senior disabled artist, he has decades of lived experience in a complicated world and brings that element to all of his creative works.
His award-winning feature documentary film entitled "Where is Hope: The Art of Murder" is available on Kanopy Streaming services in libraries, colleges and universities worldwide. The film tackles the issue of police brutality against people with disabilities. The film was in collaboration with Leroy Moore and Krip Hop Nation's disabled artists worldwide. Emmitt has collaborated on several music videos about disability issues also with Keith Jones and Leroy Moore over the past 15 years.
He is currently working on a new film series project entitled "Beyond the Limits". This is his version of Disability in the "Twilight Zone" a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror film series from a disability perspective. Creating entertainment content geared specifically for and by people with disabilities.
More about the film: The music for the video was produced by Emmy Award-Winning disabled lyricist and co-founder of Krip Hop Nation composer/activist/artist Keith Jones. Both artists have cerebral palsy and this is one of several collaborations that include disabled Filmmaker Emmitt H Thrower a stroke survivor with blindness in his left eye.
The music video was shot in LA by Erick Matuse. Gentrification has priced many people, including people with disabilities, out of their homes and out of their neighborhoods. The song laments those realities much like the Blues singer Josh White Sr. did in his songs. New York Filmmaker Emmitt Thrower who created the concept had a main goal of capturing how the forgotten disabled artists and their work have real-life influence on disabled artists/activists nationwide today. Leroy Moore Jr. continues a tradition.
