
I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow
2017, English. Directed by Jessica Ashman.
“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.
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- 0h 6m
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- 29 October 2017
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I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 October 2017. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow?
I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017) was directed by Jessica Ashman and stars Annlin Chao, Ng'endo Mukii, Maybelle Peters.