Writer and performer Kai-Isaiah Jamal teams up with filmmaker Emily McDonald to create a film based around two of Jamal’s recent poems. Combining movement and verse, the work explores themes of queer identity, creativity and vulnerability, finding liberation in the genderless spaces of poetry and dance. “It takes so long to come home to your body for some of us,” describes Jamal. “This project finds the beauty in feeling your body and living inside of it.”
Project: Somewhere We Dance Forever
Featuring: Kai-Isaiah Jamal
Client: Browns
Director: Emily McDonald
Producer: Christo Geoghegan
DOP: Molly Manning Walker
Focus Puller: Benjy Kirkman
Gaffer: Darren Pearson
Set Design: Kaya Strehla
Stylist: Samantha Crossley
Movement Coach: Mesh Henry
Runner: Sophie Gosman
Editor: Chris Brown
Grade: Dan Moran
Sound: Cashin0
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