Talking Walls
Multiple voices reflect on the language, sounds, touch, history, and choice of public and private Black and queer spaces.
Screenings
Virtual
Directors Spotlight
Marcellus
Director
Marcellus (Marcellus Armstrong) is an artist, filmmaker, media programmer and educator. His work focuses on archival and material notions of Blackness and queerness. His short film, Talking Walls, released in 2025, won Best Audience Short Documentary and Philadelphia Filmmaker Award at BlackStar Film Festival 2025. Rooted within participatory community media, Marcellus has worked with Scribe Video Center, Detroit Sound Conservancy, and is the inaugural recipient of the Ann Bennet Visionary Producers Prize for 2025. He received his MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017. Originally from the suburbs of Baltimore, Marcellus currently resides in Philadelphia.
- Year
- 2024
- Runtime
- 27 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Director
- Marcellus
- Producers
- Asadullah Saed, Marcellus, Raishad Momar
- Co Producers
- Raishad Momar, Asadullah Saed
- Cast
- Christopher Rouse
- Cinematographer
- Raishad Momar
- Editor
- Marcellus
- Animator
- Yashaswi Dixit
- Sound Design
- Rowhome Productions
- Premiere
- Philadelphia