I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017)

I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

“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.

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Annlin Chao
as Self

Ng'endo Mukii
as Self

Maybelle Peters
as Self

Jessica Knights
as Self

Airelle Ray
as Self

Suraya Raja
as Self

Catherine Anyango Grünewald
as Self

Phoebe Boswell
as Self

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Leni Kauffman
Animation

Jonathan Long
Animation

Tega Okiti
Producer

Jessica Ashman
Director

Seb Bruen
Sound Designer

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