Fall Frum Grace Miss Pipis Blue Tale (2011)

Fall Frum Grace Miss Pipis Blue Tale is a shadow puppet narrative which follows the travails of the heroine Miss Pipi intercut with shadow puppet abstracts of a surreal and violent nature The subtext of the video is the mythology surrounding white Southern womanhood historically cited time and time again as an entity to be protected from sexuality in particular from the presumed hypersexuality of black men Although fiction this was the excuse for the murder of countless black men and boys in Jim Crow America Miss Pipis Blue Tale is meant to be as deeply contradictory a visual tale as the Blues is in music Delta Blues often merges broad comedy with despair sensuality with loss and doityourself urgency with structured improvisation