ZCCD
ZIMBABWE CULTURAL CENTRE IN DETROIT’Smission is to educate, archive, & promote the arts & culture of Zimbabwe. We continuously strive to encourage strong ties between culture-producers & residents in Zimbabwe, Detroit, & abroad, acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between communities.
COMRADES /
CHARLES MUDEDE
RESIDENT /
2019
2019
Charles Tonderai Mudede is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. He is the film editor of the Stranger, a lecturer at Cornish College, and has collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes. In the fall of 2018, he directed his first film, Thin Skin, from a script he wrote with Lindy West and Aham Oluo. He has also written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, Tank Magazine, e-flux, LA Weekly, Nest Magazine, and C Theory.
Charles Mudede research residence was made possible through the Power House Production and the support by Bank Suey. he spent three weeks researching the community and writing down his thoughts.
Charles Mudede research residence was made possible through the Power House Production and the support by Bank Suey. he spent three weeks researching the community and writing down his thoughts.
Charles Mudede at BankSuey (Hamtramck) discussing his work to the public with Detroit writer, Casey Rocheteau. ▶
▲ Cruising the city with a Rolls Royce, Belle Isle, Detroit.
A “braai” at ZCCD in his honor to meet the community. ▶
