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You Feel Me?
Roya DelSol (Toronto, ON) EMERGING
World Premiere
Duration: 5:31
Content warning: Strobe lighting
“You Feel Me?” is a dance film that explores themes of isolation, longing and touch through the expression of Black femme sensuality. Drawing upon the experience of dancing alone in one’s room — a rare instance of a “safe space” in Black life — “You Feel Me?” asks, “How do you move in solitude?”
Dancers circumnavigate brutalist architecture, columns, glitches, and frames, bridging these separations through intuitive movement. Through these motions, “You Feel Me?” attempts to embody the haunting that can result from our desire for closeness, love and understanding.
“You Feel Me?” both celebrates queer femme sensuality, as well as the ways that Black queer femmes see, reach out to, and care for each other. (Against all odds—even when nobody else does—we got us.)
Director: Roya DelSol
Choreographer, Creative Director: Jessica Karuhanga
Cinematographer: Morgana McKenzie
Producer: Fonna Seidu
Dancers: Jessica Karuhanga, Kim Ninkuru, Jennille Seedial, Chason Yeboah
Costume Design: Shaya Ishaq
Music Composition: Jessica Karuhanga & Emilio Portal
F-O-R-M is based in so-called Vancouver, in what is colonially known as Canada, on the unceded and stolen traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. F-O-R-M continues to reflect on and bring attention to connection to bodies, land and movement through filmmaking, documentation and storytelling. We are grateful to share and witness these stories together while inspiring movement towards positive change, wherever you may be.