The artist and filmmaker on ghostwriting for Kanye and her directorial debut, The African Desperate: ‘it’s like Superbad with less friends, less budget, and no white guys’
As her first film is released via MUBI, the American artist-turned-filmmaker talks about turning her personal experience of racism at New York’s Bard College into a cinematic, art-world satire
Most films set adjacent to studios and galleries lampoon unfathomable pretension, but Martine Syms takes a more nuanced approached in her look at art schools.