No You Cyant Touch It!

Shot in black-and-white and sepia tones, “No You Cyant Touch It!” incorporates an understanding of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality as it deals with Black women’s favourite obsession – hair – from an interesting perspective. The film’s creatrix and subject examines the link between her locks, her Black, queer identity, and other people’s understanding/assumptions of who she is and where she “belongs.” The stark tones and political subject matter are mediated by Rhizome Syndrigast Coelacanth Flourishing’s lyrical poetics.

Film Maker
Rhizome Syndrigast Coelacanth Flourishing
Year
2001
Country
Canada
Length
3
Category
LGBTQ, political activism, Politics + Policy, Race + Ethnicity, Work about Women, Work by Women
Genre
documentary, queer

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