Sword And Shield. Down. Down. Both Of Them Down.

Cut to a horrific free-fall.

Indigo oceans.

Indigo galaxies.

She loses her mind.

The planet was silent.

Finally silent after all our incessant chatter and swiping left, right, wherever.

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Sword And Shied. Down. Down. Both Of Them Down is an attempt to re-capture identities out of the clutches of the daily colonial frameworks which through their all pervasive nature, often force a hardening out of protection.

A sense of trying to carry on amidst all this fuckery and re-train a fearless vulnerability.

A sense of retaining my multiplicity and morphing the body’s narrative as a soft resistance to objectification and reductive representations.

A challenge to Alexandrina – as someone who experiences heightened distress over their appearance to look in the camera for more than a minute. A challenge to the viewer to free their gaze from the familiar and identifiable.

First screened as part of GUSH Vol. 1 by Jamila Johnson Small/SERAFINE1369 (formerly Last Yearz Interesting Negro). 

This film is 6m3s.

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