Film Experimentalist | Noise Hero | Actor | Poet
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Manifesto written for ‘’Sis Is This The End Of The World?’’
To Whom It May Concern,
As I write this my friends are prancing around my room, trying on looks and taking pictures, laughing and asking, which photo is iconic enough to give to the media when I die? For us, the gender deviants and melanated, we know we only have one true chance in the spotlight. We have been conditioned to know that our lives will come to an un- timely and violent end.
I think of Cinema as a map, a guide through vast land- scapes beyond the device in my hand. When cinema gets it right, we find ourselves within it. It is moving. We are always in the middle of going somewhere, bringing memories, moments, and portals that at once capture and move us in the same breath. I can not think of a film where I have seen myself. My friends and I have no map. I look up glance at the photo my friend took on her phone. Her lips are pouty and her eyes are wide, wearing a pink satin nightgown. I say Yeah bitch, that's the one. That's the one to be all over the news and social media, hopefully, if someone cares. I always will.
I make films to delve deeper into our fears and desires, remembering we are soft, beautiful and young as night. To bear witness to our wonder, our truths. To go forward but not by myself. We are not fated to wither in the margins we are pushed into. We will see the earth before the world ends. We are thriving, joyously, loud in both our triumph and our lamentation. We celebrate through this urgent form of cinema, without resting in voyeuristic tropes. We turn away from what is seen to- wards what is felt. I call for a radical queer cinema that trusts no wave before it or after. A cinema that in its nowness, rejects the recuperation of black culture, rejects the homoge- nizing force of all institu- tions. Gentle, jarring, intimate, and brutal. To have nothing is a miracle and it is monstrous. We claim nothing for our own, and nothing can claim us. Exposure of the absurd is our tactic.
We are surreal because we crave to see beyond our reality.
We are, like Stephan Winter ASSert- ed, “Black faggots with a political agenda.”
In my work I will challenge our compulsions and immerse us in a whirlwind beyond analy- SIS. It’s like, my tongue is in my friend's mouth and your tongue is in my mouth. It is urgent, it resists individualization. We’re making this together, we are talking it out, this need for rupture, our unfaltering desire to escape.
Xoxo
Alli Logout
Inquire about being a private donor for the project here ︎
To Whom It May Concern,
As I write this my friends are prancing around my room, trying on looks and taking pictures, laughing and asking, which photo is iconic enough to give to the media when I die? For us, the gender deviants and melanated, we know we only have one true chance in the spotlight. We have been conditioned to know that our lives will come to an un- timely and violent end.
I think of Cinema as a map, a guide through vast land- scapes beyond the device in my hand. When cinema gets it right, we find ourselves within it. It is moving. We are always in the middle of going somewhere, bringing memories, moments, and portals that at once capture and move us in the same breath. I can not think of a film where I have seen myself. My friends and I have no map. I look up glance at the photo my friend took on her phone. Her lips are pouty and her eyes are wide, wearing a pink satin nightgown. I say Yeah bitch, that's the one. That's the one to be all over the news and social media, hopefully, if someone cares. I always will.
I make films to delve deeper into our fears and desires, remembering we are soft, beautiful and young as night. To bear witness to our wonder, our truths. To go forward but not by myself. We are not fated to wither in the margins we are pushed into. We will see the earth before the world ends. We are thriving, joyously, loud in both our triumph and our lamentation. We celebrate through this urgent form of cinema, without resting in voyeuristic tropes. We turn away from what is seen to- wards what is felt. I call for a radical queer cinema that trusts no wave before it or after. A cinema that in its nowness, rejects the recuperation of black culture, rejects the homoge- nizing force of all institu- tions. Gentle, jarring, intimate, and brutal. To have nothing is a miracle and it is monstrous. We claim nothing for our own, and nothing can claim us. Exposure of the absurd is our tactic.
We are surreal because we crave to see beyond our reality.
We are, like Stephan Winter ASSert- ed, “Black faggots with a political agenda.”
In my work I will challenge our compulsions and immerse us in a whirlwind beyond analy- SIS. It’s like, my tongue is in my friend's mouth and your tongue is in my mouth. It is urgent, it resists individualization. We’re making this together, we are talking it out, this need for rupture, our unfaltering desire to escape.
Xoxo
Alli Logout
Inquire about being a private donor for the project here ︎
STUDIO LALALA
Studio LaLaLa is a Black and Trans mixed media production company consisting of artists Alli Logout and Juicebox burton. We utilize a DIY philosophy to collectively produce the visions and voices of our community and pride ourselves on being able to create quality content for those around us on any budget. Our work expands all over from narrative to commercial to music video and party promo.
Both proficient in pre and post production, we are here to guide you from the birth of an idea all the way to its final product. We also offer live streaming services that can seamlessly stream your special event: graduations, conferences, meetings, press conferences, training sessions, galas and more.
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