Films by Dan Dansen

2022, 12 min
by Dan Dansen

What if we lived in a society in which people who harmed and people who were harmed could heal simultaneously?"Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin" is a video essay on survivorhood: A multitude of trauma survivor voices casts a wild vision of a utopian society. The experimental film pulls the spectator into a journey of self-love and dealing with trauma as a sophisticated skill. A polyphonic chorus of survivors depicts their ideas on dealing with violence, the art of making kin and queer