The BOI's Failed Crown
The BOI's Failed Crown is a poetry film that delves on longing and desire through the angle of reclaiming the Black Trans body. It was shot at the protagonist MARS' house and the Detroit Abloom flower garden.
directed, filmed, edited, and produced by Na Forest Lim
written and performed by MARS Marshall
co-producer Jhayla Mosley
art director Ilana Portney
series producer Donald Harrison
1st assistant director Miles Reuben
sound recordist Ethan M. Cohen
composer Sonyah Sophiyah Elizabeth
funded by Kresge Arts in Detroit
MARS Marshall is a writer and cultural organizer born, raised, and based in Detroit. Their work intimately explores desire and longing through the lens of reclaiming the Black Trans body. Marshall is a Lambda Literary Arts Emerging Writers Fellow in poetry and a Crescendo Literary Art Poetry Incubator Fellow. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Foglifter Journal, Gertrude Press, the Shade Journal, the Lambda Literary Art anthology Emerge, and elsewhere. Marshall currently serves as the director of the Allied Media Conference.