Visual artist Martine Syms makes her feature directorial debut with
The African Desperate, a satire of the arts world. The film stars Diamond Stingily as a
young artist celebrating her graduation and plays out over the course of an
event-filled night.
The African Desperate is on MUBI UK from October 21st.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
The African Desperate follows artist Palace Bryant (Diamond Stingily) on one very long day in 2017 that starts with her MFA graduation from a white liberal arts college in upstate New York and ends at a Chicago Blue Line Station. Set against the lush backdrop of late summer, Palace navigates the pitfalls of self-actualization and the fallacies of the art world. Shot through with Syms’s celebrated conceptual grit, humour, social commentary, and vivid visual language, The African Desperate leads us on an intimate and riotously funny journey through picturesque landscapes and artists studios, from academic critiques to backseat hookups, and from the night of a wild graduation party to the morning of a lonely trip back home.
