Hi-De-Ho / Boardinghouse Blues Blaxploitation • Pure Cinema (2015

• Pure Cinema (2015

including rare interviews

endlessly looping score

Set during the uncertainty of the city-state’s handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy

Together with Lorenza Mazzetti (2023

Hi-De-Ho / Boardinghouse Blues Blaxploitation • Pure Cinema (2015With his trademark scat singing and energetic performance style, jazz legend Cab Calloway (The Blues Brothers) stars in Hi De Ho as a bandleader who contends with a jealous girlfriend and gangland thugs in his rise to fame. In Boarding House Blues, Moms Mabely stars as the owner of a lodging house for touring musicians, with Dusty Fletcher her most troublesome tenant. Black cast films originated as bare bones productions manufactured to satisfy the