In a new film from the Extended Play digital series—the sixth of our Summer of Shorts film premieres—artist Stan Douglas recalls the making of his epic six-hour video Luanda-Kinshasa (2013). Influenced by memories of making pause button mixtapes in the early 1980s, Douglas imagined a recording that combined elements of Miles Davis’s last studio album from the 1970s, On the Corner, with Afrobeat rhythms inspired by musician Manu Dibango’s 1972 song, Soul Makossa.
New Video: Stan Douglas Makes a Visual Mixtape

Production still from the Art21 Extended Play film, "Stan Douglas: Channeling Miles Davis." © Art21, Inc. 2017.
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