I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017)

overview : “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.

Release Date : Oct 29, 2017

Runtime : 6m

Genre : Animation  Documentary  

Companies : Arts Council of England, Animate Projects

Countries : United Kingdom

Keywords : black awareness