In Bodies In Dissent (2021), Essi’s camera traces how performance histories migrate across time and preserve evidence of our lives.

How we carry the past “within ourselves, across generations, across histories, and across the Atlantic”

Blurb from the MoMA

ironic recontextualizations of these forms evidence a social constructionist historiography and assert Haynes’s directorial agency as resistant to the norms of conventional cinematic representation and spectatorial identification.