Luanda-Kinshasa by Stan Douglas is a film made in 2014. It is a fictional recording of mainly Black musicians creating music in the 1970s at the CBS 30th street studio in New York City (famously known as The Church) The musical group is composed of an eccentrically dressed multicultural cast. This plays out as a period piece from the artist’s imagination of what these musicians would have looked like at a jam session in 1970s New York. The work is six hours long, and it is edited out of order and looped. The camera pans to and from the different musicians, as well as zooms in and out of each scene linking them into a consistent narrative. Key figures of this “constructed document” include a South Asian man wearing a long sleeve tunic top, seated with his legs crossed behind two small hand drums (bongos) placed on the floor. A white man with a grey bandana and glasses strums a red electric guitar. A light skinned Black woman with a giant afro is playing a drum set, wearing a classic paisley print mid length colorful hippie shirt with a draped sailor collar. There is also a large dark toned Black man wearing a short sleeve dashiki top and long white loose pants. He is seated and sports a crocheted beanie hat over a low cut while playing a clarinet. A light toned Black man wearing a long sleeve orange butterfly collar button down shirt with a few top bottoms left unbuttoned plays the keyboard. A dark toned Black man with a dark toned large crocheted beanie worn over what seems to be a thick head of hair. He wears a red toned jacket over an off-white polo shirt and grey colored pants, seated and playing a brown guitar. Another dark toned tall man wears a neutral tie-dyed pattern. He wears a large silver square pendant which hangs from what looks to be a leather necklace. His full-length dashiki Afghan is covered by one of three giant blue drums each with their own microphone pointing down at them. He wears a large silver square pendant which hangs from what looks to be a leather necklace. His full-length dashiki Afghan is covered by one of three giant blue drums each with their own microphone pointing down at them. A balding white man wears a pea green leather jacket and a white tee-shirt underneath. He seems to be mixing and adjusting the sound. He may also be playing a synthesized keyboard of some sort. All the musicians are wearing headphones so it is clear who is playing and who is lounging about the studio. In addition to the musicians, there are some random people present observing the session. There are two seated women observers, lounging on a large dark couch. The woman on the left-hand side is white and wears a large brown hat. She has her legs crossed right over left, her left arm is rested on the top of the couch, with her hands hanging over toward her front. Peachy brown pants and a white long sleeve tunic top adorn her body loosely. The woman to the right is a mid-toned Black woman leaning onto the armrest to her left. She wears a dark green jump suit with a white shawl draped behind her and over each arm. Her left arm is bent as she rests her head against a closed fist. Her legs are crossed at the ankle, right over left as well. There are also a few random men in suits standing about making conversation. This whole scene is coated in sounds overlapping and interrupting each other in what seems to be an endless loop of funky music. The music is actually improvised, and each musician is responsible for adjusting as needed to keep the jam session going on and on.