Jamal Ademola

Jamal Ademola is a NigerianAmerican artist and filmmaker whose work moves fluidly between cinema advertising and fine art spanning narrative documentary animation installation acting and performance His storytelling blends the intimate and the surreal to create vivid visual narratives exploring Black identity memory migration ancestry and belonging His documentary work includes House of Aama Threads of Legacy for PBS American Masters supported by Firelight Media and The Blind Couple from Mali a feature documentary on Grammynominated musicians Amadou Mariam for which he served as Creative Director As an actor Jamal appeared in Imagine a Moon Colony part of Hulus TV series Your Attention Please and in the feature film TenCent Daisy available on Amazon Prime Video and Tubi Jamals artwork and films have been exhibited internationally at LACMA 2026 African Film Festival New York 2026 2025 Seattle Black Film Festival 2026 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival 2025 Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2025 Albany Institute of History and Art 2025 DOC NYC 2024 Images Festival 2024 Wassaic Project 2024 August Wilson African American Cultural Center 2024 Alchemy Film Arts 2023 2022 Kala Art Institute Black Cultural Archives in London The New School and PBS He is currently directing Pieces of You a romantic visual autoethnography and They Came from the Clouds a feature documentary supported by Comcast NBCUniversal BAVC Media PAMCUT and Kala Art Institute Across mediums his practice moves between lived experience dreams poetics and imagined worlds using storytelling as a way to explore who we are and where we come from