MOVING PICTURE

CHRONIC MEANS FOREVER*

A strange thing happens when you have a chronic and life threatening illness. After a while, people seem to forget that you have it. As long as you smile on the same sunny days as they do… As long as you laugh at the same funny jokes as they do… They don’t have to remember that your body is failing you. Chronic Means Forever tells a story that doesn’t have a happy ending. It tells a story that according to research, only has a life expectancy of about 37 years. It tells my story.

Audience Award for Best Feature

& Social Impact Award (Honorable Mention) at the 21st Local Sightings Film Festival (September, 2018).

Featured in the 44th Northwest Filmmakers Festival (November, 2017)

& Northwest Tracking Showcase (March 2018).

*The above video is a trailer for Chronic Means Forever. The film's full length is 1 hour 39 minutes and not available for online streaming. To schedule a public screening of the film, please reach out to Kadazia using this websites contact form.

AIN’T NO BETTER

This is the first piece to a much bigger project that will explore and give recognition to Black women who played mammies in early films and television shows. They are not to be looked down upon or forgotten. They are not to be pitied. They gave life to the films and television shows they made cameo appearances in. Without these women I wouldn't even be able to hold a camera, let alone be the revolutionary Black woman filmmaker that I am today. So to all the Black women before me who wore aprons on a screen in front of an audience that couldn't appreciate the beauty in front of them... I see you. I thank you. And I love you.  

DEAR HARRY,

A non-fiction cine roman style video that depicts a conversation had between a white-passing man and a Black woman. Who would have thought a film could get thrown out of a film festival for being too Black... Me.

FREESTYLE PERFORMANCE 10-17-16

A freestyle dance captured by 3 different cameras at the same time.

Dancer: Marisa Tragsiel

Camera Women: Ittika Frazier, Linda Wilson, Kadazia Allen-Perry

Song One: Bunx Up by Deewun ft. Marcy Chin

Song Two: Trauma by Doja Cat

KEISHA LOSES HER COOL

When an actress does not deliver the performance that her fellow cast and crew desires, they devise a plan to achieve the scene they know their audience is expecting.