Phillip Michael Youmans Movies

Melvin, a reluctant hero who is far from super, has been suppressing his telekinetic powers for years with booze, drugs, and women. In the process,...

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the...

November, an urgent film about white male privilege set against scenes of Black joy, freedom, and beauty.

Morality clashes with ceremony and things go awry.

Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with...

“Won’t You Celebrate With Me” is about Black woman unity in an alternative Afrofuture. The film depicts a small community of Black...

Upon immigrating to New York, a West-African mother finds comfort in the dresses her daughter makes for her.

Phillip Youmans made this short exclusively for Dazed in part of his takeover as guest editor. Described as a love letter to his home of New Orleans...