Storyville: Where the Walls Remember: Films by Marcellus and muthi reed
Submitted on February 12,2026
Friday, June 12, 2026, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
From local filmmakers, these two film projects focus on time, place, and living black and queer histories from North Philadelphia to Detroit.
Talking Walls by Marcellus
(USA, 2024, 27 min)
In this audio-visual project, multiple voices reflect on the language, sounds, touch, history, and choice of public and private, Black and queer spaces.
Preceded by:
it be your own people by muthi reed
(USA, 2025, 21 min)
it be your own people is a cinematic assembly of reference materials contextualizing the love needed to thrive particular to people in a city called Philadelphia, and even more particular to Black North Philadelphians.
Marcellus (Marcellus Armstrong) is an artist, filmmaker, media programmer, and educator. His work focuses on archival and material notions of Blackness and queerness.
muthi reed is an ethnographic artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA and New Orleans, LA. Working in sound, visual media, public art, and design, their work explores rhythm, memory, gesture, embodiment, and sound.