Before Reggae Hit the Town - Student documentary film feat. Justin Hinds (1990) Part 1

Описание: This short student documentary made as graduation film for the London International Film School takes a look at Afro-Jamaican musical and religious traditions and features the late Justin Hinds.

A few words about this film:

I am not now, nor was I ever, an ethnomusicologist and this film does not attempt to be an authoritative or even comprehensive document on the subject; it was more a self-imposed exercise or assignment: go to Jamaica with the intent of making of a film about the deaths of Peter Tosh (and Carlton Barrett and Michael Smith), and when that doesn't work out, film something else.

I was an inexperienced film student and Jamaican music lover deeply inspired by Alan Greenberg's "Land of Look Behind." It was my first time in Jamaica and the film was shot under difficult and rudimentary conditions. The final product is certainly not without flaws and errors. It was not the film I wanted to make but I present it mostly due to popular demand.

Parts of the Pocomania sequence were stolen and used without permission in Red X, the film about Peter Tosh (thanks), but footage of Justin and his Nyabinghi brethren was licensed to and featured in "Wingless Angels - A Short Film," included in the Wingless Angels Limited Deluxe Edition Box Set (Mindless Records).

Special thanks to producer, sound recordist and editor Alejandro Springall for invaluable guidance and assistance in post production. Without your help it would never have happened.

Credits:
Director and co-producer: Mark Gorney
Editor and co-producer: Alejandro Springall
Director of Photography; Jeff Baustert
Camera operator: Celia Bendelac
Narration: Glen Brown
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Gorney

Shot on 16 mm. film entirely on location in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica, October 1989