The African Desperate

THE AFRICAN DESPERATE tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant (an expertly deadpan Diamond Stingily), a newly minted MFA grad whose final 24 hours in art school become a real trip. Palace is not going to the fucking graduation party! She hates the woods. If this were a reality show, she would be the person who was not here to make friends. Palace needs to get home, back to Chicago from upstate New York. But that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory night-long odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to back-seat hookups. The electrifying feature debut from renowned artist Martine Syms, THE AFRICAN DESPERATE brings her razor-sharp satire and vivid aesthetic invention to a riotous coming-of-age comedy.

"Witty, sharp, and right on the mark, this is social commentary for the art world like we’ve never seen it before." – Vogue

"A surreally immersive and snickering good time." – Film Comment

"Rollicking, piercing, and wildly entertaining... An electrifying, riveting odyssey." – The Film Stage