marlow is an experimental visual artist who shoots and edits together 16mm and 8mm footage, mini DV footage, low-fi archival footage, photographs, old news articles, and ambient sound collages.
Through time-based media, he materializes theory by Black radical thinkers into montage films that explore the transgressive space of collective memory, Black social death, and trans abjection. His cinematic universe comprises muddy textures, harsh cuts, and distorted sounds into montage films that collapse time and critique American history.
EDUCATION
2016| University of California, Berkeley BFA | Film and Media Studies
2027| Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts| Moving Image
RESIDENCIES
2023-2024 Studio Lamella Screenwriting Lab
Virtual + NY, NY
2022, Artist Residency This Will Take Time, Oakland, CA
2020, Production Residency
SFFILM House Residency
San Francisco, CA
2020, Online Residency
SF MOMA
San Francisco, CA
2018, Black Radical Imagination Tour
West + East Coast
2018, Little Paper Planes Artist Residency
Minnesota Street Project
San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS
2024 | Confessional | DIFFUSION Festival | CAN
2024 | Confessional | SF Grace Cathedral | CA
2023 | Velvet Rain | MAD HOUSE YSTÄVÄT | Finland
2022 | Copper | Wexner Center for Arts | OH
2020 | Velvet Rain | Films for Escapism | LA
2019 | Velvet Rain | Opener for Sun Ra Arkestra Live Score| Ukrainian Culture Center | LA
2019 | Velvet Rain | Forever, A Moment: Black Meditations on Time & Space | SOMArts | SF
2018 | Gemini | Museum of the African Diaspora | SF
2018| Copper|Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago|IL
2018 | Gemini + Copper | Playground Coffee | NY
2018 | Copper | Junior High Gallery | LA 2018 | Copper | MOCA | LA
2018 | Copper | New School | NY
2018 | Copper | Ann Arbor Film Festival | MI
2018 | Copper | Carneigie Mellon | PA
2018 | Copper | FEElS 6 | Oak
2018 | Copper | National Museum of African American History and Culture | DC
2018 | Copper | Kennedy Center | WA 2018 | Copper | The Black Aesthetic | Oak
2017 | Copper | Mills College | Oak 2017 | Copper | Starline Social Club | Oak