COLLABORATIVE

Grey Matter (in development)

Grey Matter is a short experimental film set in Williamstown, MA (Mohican homelands) made and performed by present day community members as a creative disruption to the colonial mythologies that continue to shape the town. Set in both 1905 and the present day, Grey Matter tells the story of the White Oaks neighborhood, a once multiracial enclave, through the embodied dialogue of two people affected by the course of its history.

Taking its name from Greylock Mountain, and the material in the brain that controls memory and perception, Grey Matter asks hyper-local questions about race, class and belonging in white majority New England.

Co-creators and performers: Bilal Ansari & Sacha Yanow
Filmmaker: Naiti Gámez
Playwright: Jerry Lieblich
Editor: Malika Zouhali-Worrall

TREATMENT

Thank You for the Fire Between Us
(in development)

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Thank You for the Fire Between Us is an embodied conversation with Johannesburg based performing artist Tshego Khutsoane involving divination practices.

Residencies:
LIFT Festival UK - Concept Touring Residency 2021


Room For Cream

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Sacha is member of the Dyke Division of Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, creators of Room for Cream, the live lesbian soap opera chronocling queer life in the mythical small town of Sappho. Season 4 was commissioned by the New Museum in 2017 as part of the exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. 

Press
A Performance About Queerness Emulates A Soap Opera - Hyperallergic
There is Always Room for Cream - Brooklyn Rail
Queer Charisma - Mosquit.ooo

We Are Dorothys

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An homage to the first openly lesbian Hollywood film director Dorothy Arzner and pre-code lesbian Hollywood “sewing circles”, involving the inspired invention of the boom mic and shared creativity and communication between women/queer artists. Jibz and I both abstractly morph from Dorothy into manifestations of her leading ladies. (Clara Bow and Lucille Ball).

Written and performed by Jibz Cameron and Sacha Yanow
The Kitchen, NYC as part of Emily Roysdon’s A Gay Bar Called Everywhere 2011

Press
Passing The Bar - Art Forum
A Gay Bar Called Everywhere - Velvet Park