Chin Up, in Dignity

Chin Up, in Dignity

Chin Up, in Dignity

Video production for an AI forward documentary style video essay for an international bookstore featuring Josephine Baker

Chin Up, in Dignity

Inspired by the 1973 unreleased Time magazine story between Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., this piece explores a fabricated relationship between the two JB’s

Interaction Design

Video Production

Creative Direction

Josephine’s, a bookshop in Paris under the moniker of Harriet’s in Philadelphia, PA, was a pop-up in Paris where a one-night screening of Chin Up. in Dignity showed.

Chin Up, in Dignity is a fabricated conversation between Josephine Baker and James Baldwin. It focuses on affirmative wishes to tell today’s generation.

Their voices were regenerated and the script was partially written with NLP.

Contributors


Jeannine Cook | Founder

Jazz Cook | Technical Mentor