Testimony is a short film that uses dance to explore the necessity and cost of bringing personal trauma into the public realm. By re-imagining the courtroom as a stage Testimony asks what pressure do we put on survivors/victims to act a certain way? Why are some deemed more believable? What power and pain is found in the act of retelling?
About the filmmaker
Alice is a writer-director from the West Midlands based in London whose all about stories that generate empathy. She currently work as an Assistant Producer at Rural Media and have directed shorts for BBC Arts, Papaya Young Directors and BFI Network.
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