“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.
An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.
A girl in a brothel reminisces and questionins the advice her mother gave her as a child.
Phoebe Boswell is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She studied painting at the Slade (2005) and 2D animation at Central St Martins (2009) and her work has since been exhibited globally. In 2016, she wrote and starred in the short film Dear Mr Shakespeare which was commissioned by the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign to commemorate 400 years since William Shakespeare’s death.
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