Moviegoing Memories is a series of short interviews with filmmakers about going to the movies.
Martine Syms is the director of The African Desperate, now showing exclusively on MUBI. Following a hallucinatory day-in-the-life of a Black artist (Diamond Stingily), the film is both a riotously funny satire of art-world pretensions and a rowdy portrayal of sex and drugs in the Internet age.
In this conversation, Syms tells us about her key cinematic influences and the experimental microcinema scene in Los Angeles.