DR. JULIAN SAPORITI
NO-NO BOY
MUSIC VIDEOS
"The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming"
Official music video for Smithsonian Folkways, 2021.
Directed by Julian and Emilia Saporiti. Set Design and costumes by Emilia.
"Mekong Baby"
Official music video for Smithsonian Folkways, 2023.
Directed by Julian and Emilia Saporiti.
"Tell Hanoi I Love Her"
Offical Music Video for Smithsonian Folkways, 2022. Dir. Emilia Saporiti.
"The Onion Kings of Ontario"
Official music video for Smithsonian Folkways, 2023.
Directed by Emilia Halvorsen Saporiti.
"Imperial Twist"
Lyric video, 2021. Directed by Julian Saporiti. Art by Emilia Saporiti.
"Little Monk"
Official Music Video for Smithsonian Folkways, 2023, Dir. by the Saporitis
"Sand Creek"
"Nashville"
Official music video for Smithsonian Folkways, 2024.
Directed by Emilia Halvorsen Saporiti
Offical Music Video for Smithsonian Folkways, 2021. Dir. Saporiti/Halvorsen
"1603"
Lyric Music Video for "1603" from Empire Electric. Dir. Julian Saporiti
"La Banda Mas Chingon en Wyoming"
Collaboration with CalPoly Pomona's Mariachi Los Broncos, 2022.
DOCUMENTARIES
1975
Making of 1975. Dir. Albert Tong for Smithsonian Folkways, 2021.
"FOR JOY"
A short film about Joy Takeshita Teraoka, singer for the George Igawa Orchestra, the jazz band which formed at Heart Mountain during WWII and performed in camp and across Wyoming, 2019. Dir. Julian Saporiti
Shishmaref
No-No Boy travels to the remote Alaskan village of Shishmaref to share songs, teach and learn. Smithsonian Folklife, 2021. Dir. Julian Saporiti
LIVE
WUFT 2025
KEXP 2021
KEXP 2022
KEXP 2024
CONCERT FILMS
CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
"Hold Me Lover, Tell Me Lies"
1975 companion film made for Carnegie Hall's Voices of Hope Festival, 2021. Made with generous support from an RACC grant.
"Carolina By Night"
Concert film commissioned by Davidson College, 2020.
"ORIENT OREGON (vol.1)"
Orient Oregon (Vol. 1) -- classroom version of 2020 film collaboration with Portland Taiko featuring taiko performances and original No-No Boy songs set to Japanese Oregonian home movies filmed between the 1920s-1960s. Full version with Q and A available here.