Story of Their Lives

Story of Their Lives is a film projection and live music performance by multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams and Dave Guy, renowned trumpeter of The Roots Band.

The project is inspired by, and consists of, found 16mm silent film footage of a Black American couple as they travel on a cruise ship to the Caribbean, go site-seeing and visit friends, and while at an intimate house party. The home movies, which date to the mid-century, were recovered two decades ago by Adams from an abandoned brownstone in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

The collection is comprised of 5 pieces for which I designed the artwork.