Four Walls

A Spoken Word, Slam Poetry, Guerrilla Freestyle Documentary.

Four Walls began as a postmodern art documentary presenting performance poetry, more specifically, slam poetry. However, over the course of two years of filming, it transformed into something much greater.  The vision was fine-tuned and re-focused on four artists from the spoken word group known as BlackSunshine.  In getting to know these artists we formed friendships that stretched beyond the walls, both literal and figurative, of the documentary.  As a result, Four Walls grew beyond the presentation of slam poetry, transforming into a portrayal of the lives of these artists.  Four Walls is more than merely capturing slam poetry; it is also about the plight of the artists behind the words.