Director: Patricia Gloum

Poem: Robert Jamie Mason

Dancers: Robert Jamie Mason & Josiah Martinez-Wade

Synopsis: Patricia Gloum, met Rob three years ago and filmed a pro LGBTQ passion dance project,
Do U for U. Fast forward they are doing another art piece together, a docu-poem-experimental short. An interesting mix of genres. Rob a former ballet dancer from Juilliard NYC dance school, narrates a poem inspired by his life as he is having a conversation with Josiah, his adopted son in the LGBTQ ballroom Voguing scene. This is common practice, to adopt each other to survive in NYC being both 19 & 21 years old. This is Rob’s way of creating his own family.

Bio: Patricia Gloum is a filmmaker & creative director and entrepreneur expressing a mishmash of many different ethereal urban influences. She taps in a variety of subjects and uses her multi language to speak to a wide audience. Based in New York City, and raised in Paris by Greek and Spanish parents, her early-on passion and vision with film gradually manifested in pushing the envelope with non-linear forms of story telling, with a sensitivity in shapes and forms. Gloum co-founded Braw Haus and is currently working on projects surrounding digital art for a progressive vision.

Program: Between Fashion and Music – VAEFF 2022