“Shouting at the Screen,” a pop-up Blaxploitation-film experience put on by the comedian Wyatt Cenac and the rapper Donwill, typically pairs a movie with drinking games. The next installment is slated for the end of July.
This spring, the comedian Wyatt Cenac and the rapper Donwill reintroduced “Shouting at the Screen,” their pop-up Blaxploitation-film experience, at Nitehawk Prospect Park. There were technical difficulties. What do comedians and rappers know about A.V. setups? Turns out, not a lot. At one point, the screen went blank. “We had to explain that this wasn’t part of the movie,” Cenac said, the other day. The film re-started but shut off again minutes later.Alcohol and food helped mollify the crowd.
The movie follows pimps and prostitutes as they weigh the pros and cons of unionizing. “The social worker in that movie turns out to be the hero, because she is trying to provide the sex workers with alternatives,” Cenac, who wore a bucket hat with two Charlie Brown pins and a vintage Malcolm X T-shirt, said. The plot bore a resemblance to a recent viral Reddit post about college women forming what they called a “hoe union.” Cenac and Donwill discussed.
They started to riffle through records. They wouldn’t say what film they would be playing at the next screening, but they were looking for albums that honored the Blaxploitation era. Cenac gravitated toward a drawer labelled “R. & B. Soul/Funk.” He picked out a 1989 LP called “Stay with Me,” by Regina Belle. “I haven’t seen this album since I was a teen-ager,” he said, and reminisced about listening to requests come in on late-night radio.
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