LOS ANGELES — Production has begun on 'Repercussions', a short dance film that uses movement and cinematic language to explore adoption, emotional trauma and the lifelong journey toward forgiveness. Written and directed by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Alexander King, the film dramatizes the relationship between a middle-aged woman and her past self as she confronts the memory of placing her child for adoption.
After witnessing a mother embrace her newborn, the protagonist is pulled into the emotional aftermath of her own decision decades earlier. Through a choreographed duet between her younger and older selves, 'Repercussions' transforms dance into its emotional centerpiece, examining shame, love, grief and acceptance. Georgina Elizabeth Okon portrays the older Evelyn and Tyona Bowman the younger, their shared dance serving as a visual conversation between past and present.
The project draws directly from King's own story. “I was adopted,” he writes. “The physical act of being let go is something I can't remember, but I feel completely… It's taken me a long time to accept that my birth mother's greatest act of love was to let me go, and I hope to give voice to the question so many carry quietly: ‘Why wasn't I good enough?'”
King describes 'Repercussions' as both personal and universal. “Art like this doesn't wait — it heals, it connects and it must be made now,” he said. The production is in its final stretch of fundraising, with $5,000 remaining to cover equipment, editing, color and sound, via its GoFundMe campaign.
