Meet Marcellus Armstrong: artist, filmmaker, and
educator exploring archival and material notions
of Blackness and queerness.
His ongoing project Talking Walls (2025) won
Best Audience Short Documentary and
Philadelphia Filmmaker Award at
BlackStar Film Festival 2025.
Rooted in community media
and collective storytelling, Marcellus has also
worked with Scribe Video Center, Detroit Sound
Conservancy, and teaches film at Temple
University.
📍 From Baltimore suburbs → now based in
Philadelphia.
Meet Marcellus Armstrong: artist,
filmmaker, and educator exploring
archival and material notions of
Blackness and queerness.
His ongoing project Talking Walls (2025)
won Best Audience Short Documentary
and Philadelphia Filmmaker Award at
BlackStar Film Festival 2025.
Rooted in community media and
collective storytelling, Marcellus has also
worked with Scribe Video Center,
Detroit Sound Conservancy, and teaches
film at Temple University.
📍 From Baltimore suburbs → now based
in Philadelphia.
we welcome Marcellus
to the Alliance family
