Where Stanislavski Meets Fanon.
Kangalee Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Smith
Gia Smith
“I am a poet and filmmaker whose work is rooted in deep attention and evocation. Across mediums—written, plaster, felt, wire, visual—I create from instinct, presence, and sincerity. My evolving body of work merges the lyrical with the cinematic, transforming layered language into vivid sensory worlds—treading the line between performance and reality.
In my recent short film, Trouble I See, I attempt to unveil the spirit beneath the form—beyond it, while still entangled in all the body encounters. Inside relationships, objects, pedagogies, and injustices is where one finds the justifications for the lingering heaviness of memory. I am heavily drawn to and inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, and all other existentialist like minded or opposing. I enjoy poetry readings, creating from all that is left behind, amplifying my community, and interrogating everything.
Patterns cannot be broken in a single instance, but always realized in one. You assume nothing if you do not look. You become cyclical if you do not mourn.'“

