About the project
Talking Walls is an audio-visual film and archive project canvasing the narratives of Black and queer/gay/lesbian/SGL-identified people, with a focus on personal and private spaces. The project is comprised of recorded interviews with self-identified community who have a strong memory or experiences connected to space/place. The project includes voices located in the cities of Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Detroit, with hopes of expanding with ongoing support.
We hope these conversations and spoken histories will provide insight into the connected interior lives of Black queer folk. We are prioritizing stories from “seasoned” people, or stories that are the most fragile of being lost.
If you would like to participate in the project, or support in any way possible, please fill out this form, or email studio@williammarcellus.com
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Marcellus is an artist, filmmaker, media programmer and educator. His work focuses on archival and material notions of Blackness and queerness. Since 2019, Marcellus has been collecting oral histories as part of an ongoing archival project, Talking Walls. In 2018, he created "The 48203 Dance Show", a community-based dance show project centered around the archive of WGPR-TV33, located in Detroit, Michigan. He continues to be rooted within participatory community media, working with Scribe Video Center, Detroit Sound Conservancy, and as a film professor at Temple University. 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.
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