Artist in Person Preceded by short: 94N.2 Mine Series: Body (L. G. Bryant, 1996). "94N.2 is an experimental film which views the body as a human landscape where the voices we hear throughout our lives reside. The voices start at infancy and end in adulthood when the female protagonist is able to untangle, claim, and finally embrace her 'independent' voice." (Bryant) (c. 5 mins) Bryant describes My Am, her first film, as "utilizing indigenous aspects of African American culture for film structure and timing." My Am is innovatively constructed and intricately edited, with stark symbolic performances cut amidst staged encounters. At its core is the depiction of a young woman in an almost empty room seeming to listen to messages on her answering machine. Beyond the room, friends meet in cafes, an artist encounters a patron, young people talk on a street corner; rumors circulate, gossip is exchanged. Varying from the serious to the fantastic, the trivial to the entertaining, these exchanges "glance the schizophrenic landscape on which African Americans negotiate the conflicts and contradictions of their subjective and 'assimilated' identities. My Am watches the seam as it frays between these two selves, the crumbling of their precarious balance, their combustion, and resulting calm." (Bryant) (52 mins)