Do not touch my hair | The Fine Comb by Samiir Saunders | Spoken Word Short | Random Acts

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'The Fine Comb’ is a spoken word film that challenges the audience through manifestations of white privilege. The film draws on the spoken word poem ‘Do Not Touch My Hair’ by Esther Ogunfeitimi, and identifies how a simple request belies compounding layers of privilege and oppression in equal measure. The poem and film identify the relationship between historical and contemporary attitudes towards race through the lens of a young black girl challenging expectation in defining her own identity.

Samiir Saunders is a visual artist, writer and filmmaker from Birmingham. He uses various media to illustrate themes of language, context, identity and fragmentation. His drawings are often identifiable by his distinctive recurring contour line motif.

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