Breath Control:

History of the Human Beat Box

documentary feature

This film is mired in irreversible music clearance hell. It has played and won film festivals the world over. But the music industry has frozen it in time and it remains an unreleased seminal work in the hip-hop canon.

** 2024 note: there could be a distribution solution in 2025! **

Breath Control is a documentary about making music with nothing but the human voice. The human beat box is one of the key elements in the development of Hip Hop culture, alongside Dj-ing, Graffiti, Breakdancing, and MC-ing. Unfortunately, its contribution has been largely overlooked, as has the fun, expressive, human, and spontaneous dimension of Hip Hop that it represents. As the first documentary of its kind, Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box uses interviews, live performances, archival footage, and animation to bring to light this important and neglected ingredient of Hip Hop’s identity.  – humanbeatbox.com

World Premiere:
Tribeca Film Festival