You’re Every Song I Ever Sing
2019
Digital video, sound
40 minutes 14 seconds, installation dimension variable

An experimental documentary in which young actors retell the life stories of elderlies collected from interviews. The actors are cast against the race, gender, and age of the original storyteller in order to question our social and cultural constructions of identity. This work interrogates stereotypes and prejudices that exist within the viewer.

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CAST
Ashitaka Porter
Alissa Dutton
Vineeth Nadella
Victoria Belka
Leilah Elkholy
Maybe Coleman
Chloe Yates
Alfonso Garcia

FILMING CREW
Dwayne Cathey
Lou Mires
Peter Kelly
Rose Ellen Houston

WRITER/ACTING COACH
Kimberly Yates
Renee Rivon
Ronnie Yates

THANK YOU
Anthony
Bernita
Brantly
Cheryl
David
John
Linda E
Linda Y

SPECIAL THANKS
Michael Robinson
Ryan Edwards
Felipe Steinberg
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist’s Residency
The Glassell School of Art

Funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance and an Emergency Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Art.