Fx, Trix, and Pix Portfolio

Fall 2021 with Lisa Crafts

In Rachel Moseley-Wood's essay "The Other Jamaica", she uses Damian Marley's controversial song "Welcome to Jamrock" to show the juxtaposing views of tourism and marginalized Jamaicans.

With this animation, I used rotoscoped archival footage of Jamaica in the 1930's-60s to manipulate ethnographic points of view. This film was made by sourcing videos from archive.com and youtube, exporting frames, image tracing in Adobe Illustrator, masking in Adobe Photoshop, and painting in Adobe Fresco.

Audio Excerpt from Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'