2023 | United States | Documentary

Songs from the Hole

  • English - 106 mins
  • Director | Contessa Gayles
  • Writer | James "JJ'88" Jacobs, Contessa Gayles
  • Producer | Contessa Gayles, richie reseda, David Felix Sutcliffe

STATUS: Released

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At 15, he took a life. Three days later, his brother’s life was taken. A documentary visual album, “Songs from the Hole” follows James "JJ'88" Jacobs through a musical opus of Hip-Hop and Soul, inspired by his innermost struggles as both a perpetrator and a victim of violence as he serves a double-life prison sentence. The film interweaves the collective storytelling of its non-fiction participants with imagined representations of memories, dreams and spiritual dialogues set to its protagonist/co-creator’s original music.

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