The Stanley presents a Pay What You Can screening of experimental documentary work by New York-based filmmaker Khalik Allah, in collaboration with FilmScene. The double feature screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director who will be in Iowa City for the Iowa City International Film Festival (ICDOCS).
This programming is related the exhibition, Flex: Masculinities in the Arts of Global Africa, on view at the Stanley from February 28, 2026 - July 26, 2026.
BLACK MOTHER
(2018, Documentary, 77 min)
A spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises and tranquil countryside, a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home. Thoroughly immersed between the sacred and profane, Black Mother channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present.
FIELD NIGGAS
(2015, Documentary, 60 min)
Set entirely at night, Field Niggas takes us to the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem and introduces us to its faces. The non-synch audio track consists of conversations with and among those faces: dreams, regrets, arguments, affection, observations, opinions. Khalik Allah’s feature début deftly combines a classic observational documentary style with an experimental format.
About the Series
FilmScene and the Stanley Museum of Art have partnered to present a dynamic series of screenings that serve as a cinematic extension of the exhibition Flex: Masculinities in the Arts of Global Africa. This collaboration presents the ritualistic, performative, and deeply personal dimensions of Black masculinity and life across the globe.