A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust” presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972). Often out of focus with an overactive camera, the film immediately exudes nervous energy, but unlike Priest’s elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly, Willie’s arm gushes blood as he injects heroin. A morality tale in two reels. —Jan-Christopher Horak

Cast

Jamaa Fanaka

Carmen Gordon

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Crew

Jamaa Fanaka

Editor

Jamaa Fanaka

Producer

Jamaa Fanaka

Director

Jamaa Fanaka

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