
Film
I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow
2017 · 6m · Animation · Documentary
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Overview
“I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is a short visual essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space. Using animation and recorded interviews of eight other women of colour artists, ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is an abstract confessional from the director herself: a visualisation of the joy, frustration, wishes and dreams of what it feels like to be a black women and a woman of colour artist, creating and existing.
Cast
Annlin Chao
Self

Ng'endo Mukii
Self

Maybelle Peters
Self
Jessica Knights
Self
Airelle Ray
Self
Suraya Raja
Self
Catherine Anyango Grünewald
Self

Phoebe Boswell
Self
Crew
- Jessica AshmanDirector
- Tega OkitiProducer
Details
- Release date
- October 29, 2017
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 6m
- Genres
- Animation, Documentary
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