Slippin - Ten Years With The Bloods DVD

• 2.0 Dolby Digital (English)
• Slippin' Ghettocam 1993 (28 min., color): Video footage shot by gang members themselves

For ten years after the 1992 LA race riots, filmmakers Tommy Sowards and Joachim Schroeder followed a group of African American gang members through the mean streets of "The Twenties," LA's powder-keg South Central neighborhood. K.K., Jumbo, Dig Dug, C.K., and Low Down are Bloods members of a violent network of gun-toting, drug dealing gangbangers locked in a deadly rivalry with the equally quick-triggered Crips. "It's about revenge, it's about pain. It's about suffering," says one battle-weary sidewalk and drive-by Blood assassin. Slippin': Ten Years with the Bloods penetrates the ongoing Blood/Crip gang war to reveal the short and brutal lives of LA street gangstas and the tragic personal toll that the gang life takes on families and friends.

Slippin's remarkable footage shows the high-stakes, high-stress world of gang life stripped of moralizing judgment or glamorizing hype. Speaking in their own words, the young Bloods testify to the seduction of violence in "a world that seems like it's trying to end," where "the devil's just telling you to pull the trigger." As the years and the bodies pile up, the boys of Slippin' grow into men and the high-wire allure of street life gives way to the harsh realities of survival. Though their scarred bodies are still shrouded in the Blood's distinctive red bandanas, Slippin's combat footage from an unseen urban war reveals the truth of a generation of Americans "dying over two colors - the color of a rag and the color of your skin."