Jenn Nkiru
Danielle Radojcin meets film maker Jenn Nkiru, whose work focuses primarily on the black experience, with credits including music videos for Kamasi Washington, Neneh Cherry and Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s ‘Apeshit’ video, for which Nkiru had private access to the Louvre overnight. Raised in south-east London and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, she studied film directing at Howard University in Washington DC. Among her key works are ‘Black to Techno’, a film about Detroit’s techno scene and sponsored by Gucci ,which premiered at the Frieze Art Fair in LA earlier in 2019, and ‘Rebirth is Necessary’ – part of a series in which rising directors turn their lenses to the future of the black experience. In 2018 she was named one of the 200 women redefining the creative industries by The Dots and one of Utopia’s 100 Global Creative Superheroes shaping culture. She also chooses the five things that she’d put in the cabinet that best represent her.
