Maybelle Peters
2021
Black Skin White Masks
Maybelle Peters
Animated film Black Skin White Masks was made in response to decolonial positions put forward by Frantz Fanon in his seminal works The Wretched Earth (1961) and Black Skin, White Masks (1952). The film was shot on 16mm using cutouts, photography and masks.
Black Skin White Masks
I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow
Jessica Ashman
Annlin Chao, Ng’endo Mukii
“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
Lesson in History
Maybelle Peters
Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton, she was inspired to make what she describes as 'the stories of black achievement and how stories had not been told.' The animated film was subsequently screened on the BBC as part of the series 10X10. It was shot on 16mm using cutouts, photography and masks.
Lesson in History
Ocean Going Figurine
Maybelle Peters
"Ocean Going Figurine" is a single screen performance in which the artist records an assemblage of figurations. Screen recording software witnesses the figuring out and figuring of conversations and movements which have been pulled from a longer iterative sequence. The software used to construct the figures highlights the collaborative process.
Ocean Going Figurine
