I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017)
“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.
Director: Jessica Ashman
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Annlin Chao as Self |
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Ng'endo Mukii as Self |
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Maybelle Peters as Self |
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Jessica Knights as Self |
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Airelle Ray as Self |
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Suraya Raja as Self |
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Catherine Anyango Grünewald as Self |
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Phoebe Boswell as Self |
| Visual Effects | Leni Kauffman | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Jonathan Long | Animation |
| Production | Tega Okiti | Producer |
| Directing | Jessica Ashman | Director |
| Sound | Seb Bruen | Sound Designer |