Founded in 2010, The Emerging Lens Film Festival is a production of The Charles Taylor Theatre and Media Arts Association. The mandate of the association is to educate, empower and inspire by honouring the influence of African Canadian and other cultural filmmakers and to bring recognition to their work.
To acknowledge the educational power of video, media arts and theatre that is rich in wonder, honest compassion and wisdom.
To present the unique work of our cultural filmmakers and to create a larger appreciation for their cultural stories.
To be a training ground for our youth storytellers, filmmakers and performers.
Excuse me, may I touch your skin? I’ve never been this close to a coloured person before… is based on the true story of an innocent outing unexpectedly infused with an inconceivable intercultural impropriety. Filmmaker/spoken word artist Asna Adhami takes poetic license to draw back the curtain on this incredible moment of racialization to unpack the baggage of centuries of segregation and colonialist legacies loaded into a single moment, by revealing the emotional underbelly after effects of microaggressions (microaggressions of macro consequences, that is)—from the perspective of the unsuspecting who experience such things.
Asna gracefully manages to unpack and lay bare the baggage of centuries of segregation and colonialist legacies loaded into a single moment, like all such moments that require careful and delicate navigation for safe passage. Her elegant exploration is poignant and understandably uncomfortable, and is the basis of her upcoming documentary.
- Year2013
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- DirectorAsna Adhami
- ScreenwriterAsna Adhami
- CinematographerAsna Adhami
- EditorAsna Adhami
Founded in 2010, The Emerging Lens Film Festival is a production of The Charles Taylor Theatre and Media Arts Association. The mandate of the association is to educate, empower and inspire by honouring the influence of African Canadian and other cultural filmmakers and to bring recognition to their work.
To acknowledge the educational power of video, media arts and theatre that is rich in wonder, honest compassion and wisdom.
To present the unique work of our cultural filmmakers and to create a larger appreciation for their cultural stories.
To be a training ground for our youth storytellers, filmmakers and performers.
Excuse me, may I touch your skin? I’ve never been this close to a coloured person before… is based on the true story of an innocent outing unexpectedly infused with an inconceivable intercultural impropriety. Filmmaker/spoken word artist Asna Adhami takes poetic license to draw back the curtain on this incredible moment of racialization to unpack the baggage of centuries of segregation and colonialist legacies loaded into a single moment, by revealing the emotional underbelly after effects of microaggressions (microaggressions of macro consequences, that is)—from the perspective of the unsuspecting who experience such things.
Asna gracefully manages to unpack and lay bare the baggage of centuries of segregation and colonialist legacies loaded into a single moment, like all such moments that require careful and delicate navigation for safe passage. Her elegant exploration is poignant and understandably uncomfortable, and is the basis of her upcoming documentary.
- Year2013
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- DirectorAsna Adhami
- ScreenwriterAsna Adhami
- CinematographerAsna Adhami
- EditorAsna Adhami