As a filmmaker, production designer, performance artist, and curator, Malachi Parsons works within cross-cultural narratives. Inspired by folklore, ritual, and cultural research, his work takes shape in independent films, photographs, community events, and marketing strategies. He leverages strong analytical skills, project management experience, and adaptability to provide creative avenues that showcase these narratives. Malachi Parsons builds bridges between diverse cultural stories, engaging audiences through his multidisciplinary approach.

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Raised in a vibrant Caribbean Black church in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Malachi's parents' involvement in ministry encouraged him to volunteer with the church media team. Here, he gained an intimate perspective on the powerful intersection of gesture and testimony. Years of observing church funeral services, where grief and loss transformed into worship through liturgical performances, revealed a precious paradox: in moments of tragedy, when tears filled their eyes, they responded with joyful praise, clapping, stomping, raising hands, and bowing heads. Today, his work strives to encapsulate shared social memories and narratives through the body and the camera, creating opportunities for revelation for both the individual and the spectator.

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In 2024, he curated his first seven-day solo art exhibition and community event, "Water Buffalo: Collage As Written Testimony," a debut showcase for Caribbean-American visual artist and poet Dhanté Bunbury. The visitor-oriented programming was tailored for art collectors and enthusiasts to leave with a sense of inspiration, belonging, and collective reflection. Malachi developed and executed a successful pre-production fundraising campaign strategy, raising over $7,000 in donations in 45 days. Along with managing a catalogue of 150+ artworks, he fostered an informative, engaging space through interactive exhibition design and artist talks.

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Malachi received a B.F.A. in Film and Television from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. As a filmmaker and producer, Malachi collaborates across departments to bring visual aesthetics to life. From conception to post-production, he incorporates feedback on pitch decks, budget spreadsheets, production reports, legal forms, and grant proposals to appropriately address clients' needs. His experience in overturning objections and reassuring location managers, property owners, and investors in a film’s mission and brand reflects his proactive and self-directed approach.

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As a production designer, Malachi interprets many directors’ visions through practical design reports, presentations, and prop styling for short films, music videos, and commercial studio work. Outside of his design collaborations, he served as a production assistant for Marsha Ginsberg, an award-winning visual artist and stage designer, while studying at NYU Abu Dhabi and at Prop Haus, a New York-based prop rental company owned by prop stylist Martha Bernabe.​

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As a performance artist, Malachi couples his interdisciplinary skills with research in performance and theatre studies to stimulate refreshing possibilities that a traditional narrative may not. In efforts to adopt an art practice led by inquiry and tactility, Malachi began to create beyond the screen. Drawing on experimental and documentary film techniques, he creates improvised choreographies inspired by interviews, research text, and autobiographical stories. 

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Ultimately, his work is informed by testimony. While the oral history and archives of his Gullah Geechee heritage have been weakened by displacement, he seeks to define his own identity and create new imagined understandings of his Blackness by telling the untold testimonies of marginalized communities. Celebrating untold stories isn't just an act of protest, its a resurgence of one's connection to their elders. He is committed to utilizing film and performance art as a means of ancestral veneration, creating a space for celebration through hybrid, narrative, experimental filmmaking, production design, and documentary solo-ensemble performance.