Mantis Films

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz percussionist’s singular voice and complex cosmology.

Filmed in and around percussionist Milford Grave’s last public concert in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens.

In the heat of the summer, in his backyard garden in Jamaica, Queens, Milford Graves sings to Ọsanyin, the one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged orisha of healing herbs.