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"might tattoo the soul"

SECONDARY DOMINANCE

– Godfrey Reggio

"defies category"   

– The Wall Street Journal

Based on an early-age incident, Secondary Dominance, a dance- and music-centric 82-minute autofictional experimental documentary, kaleidoscopically explores trauma through the dual prisms of art and science. A neuroscientist invites an artist to speak at a medical conference on PTSD and the brain. During her talk, she reads a letter she wrote to her childhood sexual abuser, igniting a high-voltage ride through her psychological landscape, illuminating the nonlinearity of memory and our capacity, as humans, to transform through this complexity...

This is Not a Victim Piece.

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