Martine Syms' THE AFRICAN DESPERATE is a tight one-weekend heater chronicling the close of an art school degree for Palace (artist Diamond Stingily in a transcendentally charismatic film debut) and her various art-friends and art-nemeses. From a historically cringe thesis panel feedback session to a night moves substance-stacking back half that's one of the most hallucinatory trips we've been on in years, this one's gonna take you places. Visually dazzling, incendiary and calming by rapid turns, and packed with the people you wish you never met in an art class... buckle in for this one!

The vitals:
MONDAY, 6/26
7:00 - doors
8:00 - local short film "Reverie" with filmmaker Brian Bowers
Following - THE AFRICAN DESPERATE
(take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVSXgmZQezY&ab_channel=MUBI)

Sliding scale $5-10 tix available for presale, any remaining sold at door (all proceeds go to studio's screening fees and future programming all for you!).

21+

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