Tourmaline is an experimental portraitist whose subject is Black trans women. This impressionistic piece concerns Mary Jones, who worked at a New York brothel in the early nineteenth century and was described as a “man-monster” in a tabloid-style lithograph that was published after her arrest, in 1836, for robbery.
Inspired by water deity Mami Wata, the film illustrates the journey of music from Africa to London through the meeting of our two main characters; Mami Wata and The Musician.
