Filmmaker Statement

“The power of capitalist realism derives in part from the way that capitalism subsumes and consumes all of the previous histories: one effect of its system of equivalence which can assign all cultural objects, whether they are religious iconography, pornography, or Das Kapital, a monetary value,” flattening them all into decontextualized “artifacts." - Mark Fisher What if "racial trauma" could be exploited to its greatest profit making ends? What if the fetish disguised as "the need to know" could be supplied to anyone? Mold of Malachi looks to challenge the commodification of racialized existence as a trend in current entertainment and sits a blistering indictment of culture industries' current practices. I made it to challenge our present trends by taking glimpse about what might be right around the corner.