The Jump Off

Over the last two months, my producing partner and I have been working on a Hip Hop Documentary entitled The Jack Mackey Project:



The genesis of the project was the desire to see hip hop music created in more Jazz like condition's crossed with the psychological exercise found in Lars von Trier's Fem benspænd, De (2003) (The Five Obstructions). We crossed that with a bunch of live cats and came up with something we feel is really interesting. On one hand there's foul language and smoking and drinking (not that any of that is negative in and of itself but) but on another there's the essence of hip hop and deep philosophical discussions about the nature and purpose of art. And that says nothing about the quality of images and the music that came out of the experiment. Needles to say. We're very exited about the project. So much so that we're now, broke as fuck from the work we've done so far, dealing with personal situations, and a general misunderstanding of what we've got from almost everyone around us, racing against time to get a rough cut to get into the Sundance or Slamdance film festivals. When we say that people look at us like we're crazy, but I can see it clear as day. I've basically started blogging to chronicle this journey and to have something published that amounts to: "I told you so" when shit comes together. (not to mention the inevitable book deal) :)

Over the next month I'll post so friends and fam can see what we're doing and understand the scope of our ambition. Check out what we do with this shit.