Film
Belly
- 6:45PM
Nas and DMX star in this tale of crime, money, power, and respect from director Hype Williams—an era-defining imagemaker, with his iconic music videos for Biggie, Tupac, and more. Most famous for its big-budget opening scene, a blacklit stickup filmed at Tunnel, the iconic NYC nightclub, Belly is a hallucinatory morality tale fueled by Alizé and dancehall reggae, with vital plot points rendered in Jamaican patois. Tracing the unraveling friendship between two spiritually divergent young men, it captures the millennial paranoia and nihilistic dread that followed the early 90s' socially urgent filmmaking.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
Go to the movies just once a month and a BAM membership pays for itself.
An aspiring NYC actress-turned-phone-sex-operator struggles and slides between reality and fantasy in this 1996 Spike Lee joint with a soundtrack by Prince.
Wong Kar Wai’s restored, emotionally raw portrait of a relationship in breakdown screens with a short film about Black, queer, and trans identities in motion by filmmaker and performance artist Wu Tsang.
Secrets and deceptions tear a wealthy Creole-American family apart in Kasi Lemmons’ Southern Gothic stew of sex, lies, and voodoo.