I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017)
I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017) - Animation Movies 6 minutes. . “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. black awareness
Released: Oct 29, 2017
Runtime: 6 minutes
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Stars: Annlin Chao, Ng'endo Mukii, Maybelle Peters, Jessica Knights, Airelle Ray, Suraya Raja
Crew: Tega Okiti (Producer), Leni Kauffman (Animation), Jonathan Long (Animation), Jessica Ashman (Director), Seb Bruen (Sound Designer)