Visual Intonation
Visual Intonation
Vanté Gregory
EP 138: Cultural Witness wth Director/Writer/Producer Max-Arthur Mantle
1 hour 29 minutes Posted Sep 12, 2025 at 8:00 am.
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This week on Visual Intonation, we sit down with Max-Arthur Mantle, a Jamaican-born artist whose lens, pen, and voice challenge silence. As a writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Mantle builds bridges between the Caribbean and the diaspora, between queerness and culture, between pain and power. His debut novel Batty Bwoy didn’t just tell a story. It reclaimed one. In this conversation, Mantle takes us behind the scenes of his boldest work yet: BATTY BWOY!, the feature film adaptation th...