Be a Doll

In a world that commands her to #BeADoll, a woman is increasingly unable to determine whether she is actually a woman or a doll.

International Premiere & Online Premiere

Artist Bio: alexa dexa is a queer, non-binary, sick, mad, + disabled toychestral electroacoustic composer-performer, technologist, and crip xXgrandmacoreXx sound witch reimagining opera as interactive remote-access rituals that activate transformative care and disabled joy. The originator of divinatory oracle cards that double as indeterminate graphic musical scores, alexa’s crip rituals + readings with their self-published oracle//composition decks offer portals for dreaming our most glorious dreams into existence as we shape + reshape our own nonlinear paths. Bewitch yourself with alexa dexa at www.alexadexa.com. More about the film: Be a Doll is an electroacoustic toy opera, composed and performed by alexa dexa, that follows a woman struggling with perfectionist and submissive conditioning in a world that commands her to be a doll so vigorously that she is unable to determine whether she is actually a woman or a doll. Living in a dollhouse filled with toy versions of household items, she performs gender appropriate play routines in a cycle of adulthood mimicking childhood games that mimic adulthood. As each of her toys sound out, they are electronically manipulated and played back in repetitions that mirror the truth that what we give our attention to grows.

More about the film: Be a Doll is an electroacoustic toy opera, composed and performed by alexa dexa, that follows a woman struggling with perfectionist and submissive conditioning in a world that commands her to be a doll so vigorously that she is unable to determine whether she is actually a woman or a doll. Living in a dollhouse filled with toy versions of household items, she performs gender appropriate play routines in a cycle of adulthood mimicking childhood games that mimic adulthood. As each of her toys sound out, they are electronically manipulated and played back in repetitions that mirror the truth that what we give our attention to grows.