“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.

I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

Layla fights daily against urges and compulsions, until challenged to face her darkest fears