Gesley Alexis

On the verge of a mental breakdown from an inability to sleep after having visited a church, Dr. Paul Davis, has a fearful encounter and finds out he is running from God; but when someone he loves is attacked, he must learn to trust God, before she is harmed, to defeat the fear within him causing his anguish.

At a small New York theatre, an ageing magician comes up with a devilish plan to save his piece of old New York by invoking some real black magic. Harsh realities and fantastic illusions come together in BLACK MAGIC FOR WHITE BOYS, Onur Tukel’s latest film, a bizarre comic adventure about gentrification, race and bodily autonomy in New York City. With over 50 minutes of new footage, Tukel has completely reworked a project initially presented in 2017 as a four-episode series at Tribeca into a gnarly and charmingly weird dark comedy. Balancing edgy misanthropy with a strain of silly sweetness, this is an intimate low-budget parable about the changing face of New York City.