The film debate about what our skin color and ethnic origin mean for our identity. Maya Albana and her childhood friend, the artist Jeannette Ehlers, have very different views on that question.
Visual and performance artist Jeannette Ehlers and Maya Albana became best friends when they were children. They are daughters of Danish mothers and fathers from Trinidad and Malaysia respectively. While Maya in her adult life feels like an ordinary Dane, Jeanette has increasingly identified herself as black over the years. All her art is a showdown with the structural racism that she believes characterizes our Danish way of thinking and society.—DFI