Plot Summary

“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.

Movie Details

Original Title
I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow
Status
released
Original Language
en

Where to watch free (US)

Vimeo
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Cast

Annlin Chao as Self

Annlin Chao

Self

Ng'endo Mukii as Self

Ng'endo Mukii

Self

Maybelle Peters as Self

Maybelle Peters

Self

Jessica Knights as Self

Jessica Knights

Self

Airelle Ray as Self

Airelle Ray

Self

Suraya Raja as Self

Suraya Raja

Self

Catherine Anyango Grünewald as Self

Catherine Anyango Grünewald

Self

Phoebe Boswell as Self

Phoebe Boswell

Self

Production Companies

Arts Council of England logoArts Council of England
Animate Projects