Provocative Videos

THE TIME OF OUR LIVES - Pride 2007 - May 2007 Edition . DVD / Video Photo Monage Tribute to Those AIDS Victims Who Gone Before Me featuring Paul Van Dyk's "The Time Of Our Lives" as background music. Concept of and Created by Elvert Xavier Barnes

A tributie to my nephew, Leander Barnes www.geocities.com/elvertbarnes/About-MMM-10YearsAgo-2005.html who was killed in a car accident on 20 October 1995 this 1995 Million Man March photo montage www.geocities.com/elvertbarnes/1995-MMM-PNBS-2005.html of images by Elvert Barnes is sampled with the dance mix "I'll Rise" by Peyton from DJ Julian Marsh's 2005 Pride Continuous Mix Compilation. Peyton's "I'll Rise" is an adaptation of Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise". All images are the work of Elvert Xavier Barnes. This production is a "THIS IS FOR THE BLACK MEN" Elvert Xavier Barnes Projections project.

"Spoke My Tongue" represents one of two poems that may be featured on the cover or in the first pages of an upcoming anthology by Elvert Xavier Barnes entitled BLACKOUT: The Resurrection of an Oppressed Soul. The BLACKOUT anthology is the first installment of a biographical trilogy of poetry, essays and other writings written from 1992 thru 1995 that sheds light the authors experience as a gay black male who practiced integration. BLACKOUT as well as the other two installments of the trilogy, namely "Some Punks & Pussies But Some Prophocies Too" and "Absolute Freedom" will be developed as the Broadway bound stage production "THIS IS FOR THE BLACK MEN WHO CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE WHEN THAT RAINBOW WAS ... JUST TOO MUCH!". Reflecting on "FOR THE COLORED GIRLS WHO CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THAT RAINBOW WAS NOT ENOUGH" and Anna Deveare Smith sytle of theatrical interview projects the stage production of "THIS IS FOR THE BLACK MEN" will integrate the photography and videography of Elvert Barnes with his writings. Any and all of his artwork in various forms may will also be included in the production. This represents my first video of the BLACKOUT Project.

Book Cover (Final draft) . BLACKOUT: The Resurrection of An Oppressed Soul An Anthology about being black, gay & everything! ELVERT XAVIER BARNES 'WRITINGS ON THE WALL'