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.

Cast (8)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

A

Annlin Chao

Self

Ng'endo Mukii

Self

Maybelle Peters

Self

J

Jessica Knights

Self

A

Airelle Ray

Self

S

Suraya Raja

Self

C

Catherine Anyango Grünewald

Self

Phoebe Boswell

Self

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