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Join us for a screening of the early the cinematic work of Mtume Gant, a New York City based and born Filmmaker. His work explores issues of nihilism, the psychological warfare inflicted on the Black artists trying to navigate the exploitive political economy of today’s America. Films to be screened are SPIT (2015), White Face (2017) and Mold Malachi (2022). There will also be a small preview of his feature length film The Hand that Feeds and an opening address by the filmmaker as well as a Q&A.

Mtume Gant is an NYC based Filmmaker whose films include the hip hop sonata Spit, the politically charged White Face and Mold of Malachi, a scathing indictment of the racial politics of the entertainment industry. Mtume’s feature length debut The Hand That Feeds is due in 2025, and he is in development for his next film which deals with the Revolutionary Underground of the 60’s and 70’s. Mtume is currently an Assistant Professor of Film at SUNY Purchase College.