For City of God’s Son, we created a feature-length film using a microphone instead of a camera - crafting a sprawling story from a re-contextualized archive of sampled media.
The narrative follows three young men growing up in a crime-ridden city, deep within a mythical jungle. The theme experiments with the “gangster archetype” in contemporary media, weaving musical history and crime-film symbolism into an operatic saga founded on brotherhood and survival.
Featuring the voices of Nas, Jay-Z, Ghostface, The Notorious B.I.G., Raekwon, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne, Delroy Lindo, and Al Pacino, as well as original narration by legendary soul singer Joe Bataan, City of God’s Son was a one-of-kind audio-driven experience.