L'avance
2024
Synopsis
Aliou, a burgeoning student at Les Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his dead mother for 3000 euros to a famous collector. Upon delivering the painting, he is taken on a journey through which he will bear the burden of the money he has just earned.
Editorial
After collaborating with fashion icon Virgil Abloh, rising star Djiby Kebe muses on the transactional realm of art for his astute debut short. Smudged with wavering feelings of unease, L’avance adds color to the existential dilemmas of an African diasporic painter with vitality and novel style.
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