Testimonials
“He makes language live!”
— Amiri Baraka
“A dynamic performer and an icon of spoken word in Minnesota.”
— On Deck Magazine
“At a time when bombast and personal invective rule the spoken word arena, E.G. Bailey is a poetic voice of traditional and global perspective.”
— Matt Peiken, 3 Minute Egg
“Artfully crafted, their brilliantly ingenious short film New Neighbors is an artistic social statement you never see coming. Expertly, all but seamlessly wrought, subtly powerful — the film in just under 10 minutes — hits a mark many movies spend two hours missing. Directed, written and edited by Bailey, this succinct gem cuts straight to the crux.”
Dwight Hobbes
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MN Spokesman Recorder
“Film allows me to bring all the other expertise that I have in theater, radio, spoken word, and writing, and playwriting. I can bring all of that into this art form and tell nuanced Black stories.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— E.G. Bailey
“The sheer force of bailey’s—and Achebe’s—storytelling, the emotional commitment of the actors and the power of luminous ideas leaping up from the text like solar flares coalesce into an extraordinary evening of theater.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Jaime Meyer, Theatre Critic
“‘Keon’ is a powerful film. E.G. Bailey carefully crafts this important narrative– a narrative known all too well by Black Americans. But this film is not just about the current epidemic in this country of law enforcement officers killing Blacks. This film is about the erasure of Black joy and Black bodies from our public spaces. Throughout the film, viewers are struck by how often Keon and his friends are asked to vacate public spaces. They are seen as loud and unruly — despite the fact they are simply attempting to compile a college entrance portfolio.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Jillian LaBranche, The Society Pages
“There’s a lot of nuance in ‘New Neighbors’…The film has no neat summation nor easy answers.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Euan Kerr, MPR
“The story (New Neighbors) carries on to a refreshingly, hopeful note and certainly leaves the viewer with plenty food for thought, as it sends a serious message without standing on a soapbox.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Dwight Hobbes, MN Spokesman Recorder
“The other short that I found really beautiful and also, unfortunately, super timely, is KEON by E.G. Bailey. It’s looking at three young black men who end up encountering the police in their neighbourhood. It doesn’t tell you where they are but the filmmakers are based in the Midwest in the US and so you can imagine that it could be Minneapolis or somewhere like that.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Jackson Caines, Glass