Jafa signs to Stink Films

Artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa has signed to Stink Films for global representation.

Mississippi-born Jafa kicked off his filmmaking career in 1991 with Daughters of the Dust, which picked up a Best Cinematography award at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, while Dreams Are Colder Than Death, an experimental documentary exploring black identity in America, was an official selection at the 2014 New York Film Festival. 

Jafa is probably best known for his seven-minute video, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016), set to Kanye West’s Ultralight Beam which has been screened in galleries worldwide including Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, the MoCA Los Angeles and London's Serpentine Gallery. His most recent exhibition, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, premiered last June at the Serpentine.

“I vividly recall meeting AJ for the first time, sitting together in a Paris café reviewing one of his iconic binders of collected images… I knew instantly my world had changed," says Stink Films' executive producer, Melinda Nugent. "I have been honoured to support the incredibly influential, important work of this multi-hyphenate artist and thinker for over twenty years. Coming off of the success of his Love is The Message exhibition, I am thrilled to bring this collaboration home to Stink’s family of ground-breaking creative artists.”