Before Reggae Hit the Town - Student documentary film feat. Justin Hinds (1990) Part 1

This short student documentary made as graduation film for the London International Film School takes a look at Afro-Jamaican musical and religious traditions and features the late Justin Hinds.
A few words about this film:
I am not now, nor was I ever, an ethnomusicologist and this film does not attempt to be an authoritative or even comprehensive document on the subject; it was more a self-imposed exercise or assignment: go to Jamaica with the intent of making of a film about the deaths of Peter Tosh (and Carlton Barrett and Michael Smith), and when that doesn't work out, film something else.
I was an inexperienced film student and Jamaican music lover deeply inspired by Alan Greenberg's "Land of Look Behind." It was my first time in Jamaica and the film was shot under difficult and rudimentary conditions. The final product is certainly not without flaws and errors. It was not the film I wanted to make but I present it mostly due to popular demand.
Parts of the Pocomania sequence were stolen and used without permission in Red X, the film about Peter Tosh (thanks), but footage of Justin and his Nyabinghi brethren was licensed to and featured in "Wingless Angels - A Short Film," included in the Wingless Angels Limited Deluxe Edition Box Set (Mindless Records).
Special thanks to producer, sound recordist and editor Alejandro Springall for invaluable guidance and assistance in post production. Without your help it would never have happened.
Credits:
Director and co-producer: Mark Gorney
Editor and co-producer: Alejandro Springall
Director of Photography; Jeff Baustert
Camera operator: Celia Bendelac
Narration: Glen Brown
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Gorney
Shot on 16 mm. film entirely on location in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica, October 1989

[@magnushedman1076]

17:12 Justin Hinds and brother Desmond Longmore, I will never forget you Desmond! you was my spiritually teacher and great inspiration!!

[@haatpraat2993]

When my grand mother died in Clarendon, Jamaica many, many members of my family returned to Jamaica for the funeral in the Mocho hills. We came from the USA, Canada, UK and myself from The Netherlands/Holland. After the burial we returned to her house and I saw musicians stringing up. As a serious lover of reggae music I thought they would be playing Reggae or perhaps even Ska. Trust me, people - the whole night these guys played Mento!

[@quantro65]

My mother comes from them sides bro. Beckford kraal. Big up from Nottingham uk 👊🏿👊🏿

[@haatpraat2993]

@@quantro65 Are you Delahaye? My uncle Phillip is from Nottingham.

[@quantro65]

@@haatpraat2993 no my mother is a Langley.

[@haatpraat2993]

@@quantro65 OK. My family up there are Thomas, Allison, Delahaye, Anderson, Morgan, Smith

[@quantro65]

Which part bro , Thompson Town or Mocho or Blackwood?

[@reggaefilms]

A GREAT film which i always loved, the footage of the pocomania and folk bands is a great document of the culture and the Justin hinds stuff amazing! wonderful footage, so glad u took that trip in 89, it looks much earlier due to 16mm, great effect, thanks to the likes of Alan Greenberg and the reggae artists for inspiring us all!

[@negusnagast7270]

Deh deh 2021

[@MacKenTayomoJ]

Oh, give thanks unto conscious ones and ones. I N I appreciated this brief motion picture. I'Yah the Producer, Mark Gorney and Elizabeth Gorney, and mant other ones n ones who made this possible. You have all made your Finger Print on History. Rastafari is love n Consciousness; awakening of the mind in i n i levity.

[@cherylmcenaney]

What a fantastic film. I & I just learned a whole lot more than ever knew about Jamaican culture.

[@tiptopsound]

Glad to hear it! It was a student film; I did the best I could.

[@martydredzkrazymusic9493]

praises to jah rastafari selassie high and raspect to the ancesters and elders and all let us keep focusing upon the positive unity slight reasoning differences will happen so it a go hail the most high blessed love rastafari nice movie still

[@barryquinnell3108]

Wonderful

[@AmbassadorHackney]

Lovely film

[@ElSun_DeepSeeMuzik]

Great Work indeed! #VeryInspiring

[@claudettestewart3711]

Very informative

[@imaxdigital7052]

16:32 HAHA thats great... BLACK PUNANI, WHITE PUNANI, ME WANT SOME PUNANI!

[@GambinoLuciano]

Nyabinghi Live

[@freethinker3532]

Justin hinds.

[@magnushedman1076]

Hello Tip Top sound! I love your wonderful interesting film! I was close friend with the man in white shirt 17:12 standing with his brother Justin Hinds, I wonder if you have some more film klipp with this two brethren? it would be of great great value for me to see and for others too maybe? he was my spiritually teacher and if you had some story to tell about your meeting with these two Rastas? many blessings-Magnus from Sweden

[@tiptopsound]

No, sorry, nothing more of Desmond. I met him through Justin. I met Justin because my initial idea for a film fell apart and I needed another subject.

[@magnushedman1076]

@@tiptopsound ok! thank you so much for answer! It must had been a very specially experience! I love both of them very much! pure souls,

[@magnushedman1076]

@@tiptopsound and both of them has passed away,,powerful bredren!!

[@stacy115]

Desmond Longmore is my father. He passed on to higher glory in July of 2009. Thank you for his inclusion in this film. He is gone but not forgotten❤.

[@magnushedman1076]

@@stacy115 Hello Stacy, what a great moment and blessing to hear from you daughter of this great man!! what a wonderful father you had! I will never forget him also, he came in to my life when I really need that healing balance from my unbalanced childhood with a tuff father that put my spirit in fire longing for God only! Master Desmond was that healer for me,we talk every third week for hours every time and it was like I was lifting up in heaven.. Desmond was these words! Perfect Love&Maximum respect! I never forget his deep warm voice and I have two photos on him on my wall and still feel his present! now when I am older I wish that I would had ask him more about his life and his experience in the Rasta movement in the early 60ths and 70 ths a very dynamic time on Jamaica, I have vist Jamaica two times 1992 and 2007,and first time I became a good brother with a man name Jah B or Lanford Bennett from Tydixon st catherine I think his mother? was a sister to Desmond? so 2007 journey I was on a suprise trip to Jah B to visit him because we had lost contact.. but when I and my wife came up to Tydixon he was dead and buried 2003, but we stayed there for some days with his brother Wilbert Long and Wilbert told me about Desmond,so the last days before we went back to sweden we visit your father and that was like the time stod absolute still when we meet! I hope you and your family are well and enjoy this beautiful life to the fullest! if you want me to send you these two great photos of your beloved father it would be a great joy for me! and It would be great to connect with you, God bless my mail is: [e-mail]

[@JimmySmith2441]

Black Punee, white punee, punee punee, The Chinney, jah lights ,sexy punee white punee black baldhead, dreadlocks

[@freethinker3532]

Bredren name at 17:00?

[@magnushedman1076]

Haile I Boris the name on that bredren with long locks was Desmond Longmore, a legendary Rasta-bush doctor and the most powerful spiritually bredren I ever met, I know him from 2007 where I met him in Golden grove st-Ann Jamaica and to 2009 when he passed away. he was then 74 years old.

[@JahSauve]

JUst to set up straight .(12,04) Fari by itself means ''coward'' Tafari = to be reveared, to be feared. Rasta means nothing by itself... Don,t abreviate your glory ! The fullnes is RASTAFARI, and it means : Head to be reverenced, to be respected ! Not Head creator ( That would be Ras Fetari) Shalom Rastafari!