ALYSSA LABRIE'S ARTISTIC PORTFOLIO
Filmmaking
I recently completed a masterclass with Oscar-winning documentarian, Larry Hott with NCTV, where I was able to create the short documentary film, Who Owns Drag, a piece examining the art and history of drag performance through a diverse lens of performers of varying gender identities. How did drag begin? How has drag evolved? Who is allowed to partake? The film is currently being submitted to festivals after a successful debut screening in Northampton, Massachusetts' The Parlor Room.
Cycles
Five College Film Festival Finalist
The film examines the cycles that water goes through and puts that in conversation with the cycles that exist in an emotionally abusive relationship. I wanted to explore the ways that we as humans seek to sustain ourselves, both in the obvious manner of consuming water and in an emotional manner through romantic relationships. The cycle the water goes through mirrors that of the turbulent relationship between an abrasive cheater and a benevolent mistress. Will the cycle continue?
Dust
Five College Film Festival Finalist, 1st Place at UMass Communications Showcase
This experimental film showcases the art form of dance and its ability to connect people of all genders, races, sexualities, classes, and other backgrounds. The dust represents soil and earth and how dance transcends geographic and social boundaries and connects us as a people. The dance styles explored in the film include ballet, hip hop, lyrical, jazz funk, acro, belly dance, vogue, bhangra, and step.
Dirt Road
An Experimental Documentary
I created this film as a project for my experimental film class. We were asked to make an experimental nonfiction film and I chose to explore what small town living means to people in the town of 800 where I grew up. I then put those images in contrast with the sonic landscape of a city.
QUEER & NOW: A Lip Sync Spectacular
Production Trailer
QUEER & NOW: A Lip Sync Spectacular is a new theatrical event premiered in Amherst in December of 2017. The show fuses the forms of drag, lip sync, and ensemble-based physical theater.
Conceived by director Garrett Sager in response to the increased anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in American culture, QUEER & NOW disrupts oppressive narratives through the celebration of queerness as an act of radical dissent.
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