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

“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.