“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 is a Black lens-based artist, director & photographer currently living in T’karonto. Having directed music videos, live performance series, music documentary content and experimental documentaries; she aims for her work to centre and uplift the experiences Black, queer, and marginalized peoples. She is drawn to the sharp, chaotic and unsettling nature of Black femme rage, revenge and retribution. Her films have screened at local arts & film festivals including Images Festival, LUMINATO Festival, and Mayworks Festival Of Working People. She has curated exhibitions with Doris McCarthy Gallery at University of Toronto, Scarborough; Trinity Square Video, The Margin of Eras Gallery & It’s OK* Studios. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions with Patel Brown Gallery, Textile Museum of Canada and & Myseum Toronto.