HomeClasses and EventsEventsMELT Movie Night: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  • Thu, Jul 31, 2025 | 6:30-8:30PM
Title of film, On Becoming A Guinea Fowl in big yellow letters with a green background fills the movie poster. The bottom left are three black women in colorful clothing and the one in the foreground is holding a child. Small. animated looking drawings of guinea fowls are in the upper right and on the left of the poster.
ID: Title of film, On Becoming A Guinea Fowl in big yellow letters with a green background fills the movie poster. The bottom left are three black women in colorful clothing and the one in the foreground is holding a child. Small. animated looking drawings of guinea fowls are in the upper right and on the left of the poster.

This MELT Movie Night is a screening and discussion led by mayfield brooks of Zambian British director Rungano Nyoni’s, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The film conjures strange scenes, costumes and a brilliant interrogation of grief and cultural norms. Nanwali Serpell of the New Yorker writes, “[The] film sits somewhere between dream and reality, between fury and grief, between fable and reckoning, between a yes and a no—or, rather, it rings out these splayed, cracked notes all at once.”

Accessibility Notes

  • This event includes auditive guidance.
  • This event includes high intensity, moving, or flashing lights.
  • This event includes a projected presentation.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, MELT Movie Night ” at least three (3) weeks prior to the event date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “MELT Movie Night.”

Past event

Location

MR, 122CC – Courtyard Studio
150 First Avenue
New York, NY 10009

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Artists

mayfield brooks

mayfield brooks

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