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POST ATLANTIC: The Art of Dewey Crumpler

2025, 28 Minutes

POST ATLANTIC explores the visionary world of legendary African American painter and philosopher Dewey Crumpler as he connects the slave trade to modern globalization and demonstrates what it means to be a working artist with a conscience in today’s society.

Dewey was a prominent voice in our recent film, TOWN DESTROYER, which explored the ways we look at public art in a time of racial reckoning. In POST ATLANTIC, we watch him recover the lost threads of African thought through beautiful, often abstract paintings that address the Atlantic slave trade, resistance, and globalization.  A crucial figure in the Black Arts Movement from his youth working with the Black Panther Party to his teaching young luminaries like Kehinde Wiley and Adrian Burrell at the San Francisco Art Institute, Dewey has challenged orthodoxies, exclusions, and foregone conclusions. POST ATLANTIC: The Art of Dewey Crumpler tells Crumpler’s story and follows him in his studio, at home, around the Bay, and at a recent high-profile opening of his new work – “Post Atlantic” – at a New York gallery. The film is not hagiography, but a portal through which we see a creator’s struggles with history and the future.

SNEAK PREVIEW in a short film program at the San Francisco Indy Shorts Fest!

October 19th, 6pm, at the 4 Star Theater, San Francisco:

https://sfshorts2024.eventive.org/films/66e338da9ef772007b26e9f3