NIGHT BLUE (Taming Fictions) is an animation that integrates performance, collage, and music, to explore two historic, contested, storied motifs of British national identity: the British National Anthem and the Union Jack.
Dancing in response to these emblems of nationhood, a silhouetted figure reconciles with the versatile fictions which have empowered whiteness, imperialism, and nationalism - they are a liminal fugitive, flowing through and punctuating the night blue darkness of Great Britain’s political history.
Dancing in response to these emblems of nationhood, a silhouetted figure reconciles with the versatile fictions which have empowered whiteness, imperialism, and nationalism - they are a liminal fugitive, flowing through and punctuating the night blue darkness of Great Britain’s political history.