Songs from the Hole

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 person who has committed and experienced violent harm, 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. (South by Southwest Film Festival)