Movies: Joie Lee

A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought....

A Brooklyn teen learns she was born HIV-positive....

The lives of 19 rather disagreeable people momentarily converge in a Brooklyn heat wave one Friday afternoon in director Cinque Lee's (Spike Lee's brother) collection of urban character studies....

Window on Your Present is Cinqué Lee's first feature film, which he wrote and directed in the late 1980s. The film takes place in a world where color and love do not exist. The people who live in this dreary world have nothing to live for and often e...

Romance - Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. T...

“Joie Lee describes this heartbreaker as ‘an epistolary exploration of my mother’s untimely passing’” (Amy Taubin) Screened at MoMA in April and May of 2023. https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8726...

“The image is constructed from a 1939 still photograph of the filmmaker’s mother. The multilayered soundtrack is styled as a radio commercial of the period” (Amy Taubin). Screened at MoMA in April and May of 2023. https://www.moma.org/calendar/even...