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Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.

Shifting between real and mystic landscapes, the visual mosaic in 'The Passion of Remembrance' signifies the complexity of the black British experience and the often-overlooked intersections between race, class, gender and sexuality.

Police Brutality PSA created for Harry Belafonte's non-profit, Sankofa.

After the death of their mother, who emigrated to England from St. Lucia to be with their father, two sisters and a brother of white English and Black Caribbean parentage attempt to fathom her psyche, her homesickness and depression after their father left the family, and their own ambiguous sense of identity and belonging.

A woman dressed garishly in bubble-gum colors conducts an opinion survey about bubble gum consumer habits at a street market. Her interviewee, a girl of six or seven, is in turn determined, convinced, engaged, skeptical, annoyed, and distracted by other, more important things.

Miriam, who lives with her four children in an English suburb, dreams of returning to her rural African home.

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.