John Carluccio is a Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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-based filmmaker whose work documents under-recognized pockets of urban society. His unique subjects range from art culture Price of Getting up, Ellis G, Artificial Afrika, Noguchi

Noguchi Museum

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, music scenes Antibalas, Wax Poetics

Wax Poetics

Wax Poetics is a bimonthly American music magazine dedicated to vintage and contemporary jazz, funk, soul, Latin, hip-hop, reggae, blues, and R&B in the crate-digger tradition; the name of the magazine is itself an allusion to vinyl records....

, Dubstep

Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....

, Battle Sounds, cheap eats Punjabi

Punjabi cuisine

Punjabi cuisine is food from the Punjab region of northwestern India and eastern Pakistan. It can be non-vegetarian or completely vegetarian. One of the main features of Punjabi cuisine is its diverse range of dishes...

, Redhook and news Powerless, Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director...

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John first picked up moving image work while at Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

 as an Architecture

Architecture

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 major, and alongside his brother Paul, an NYU Tisch Film Grad. John is best known in the DJ world for his expansive work with turntablists including, his first documentary film Battle Sounds (97 Whitney Biennial), Hop-Fu, Scratch (PALM pictures), and Turntablist transcription methodology, a notation system for DJ scratching.

John’s work has appeared on Current TV

Current TV

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, MSG Network

MSG Network

The MSG Network, now shortened to simply MSG, is a regional cable television and radio network serving the Mid-Atlantic United States. It is focused on New York City sports teams...

, MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 and most recently BET

Bet

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 as a director of photography

Photography

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 for the hit program The 5ive

The 5ive

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With an eye for diversity, Carluccio continues to document uncharted topics presently as a producer/editor for the national cable network Current TV.