storäe michele as artistic stylist & costume designer

New Sanctuary: a film & ritual , directed by André Daughtry

featuring Ricarrdo Valentine and Orlando Hunter of Brother(hood) Dance!

premiered at Judson Memorial Church, NY, NY, 2017.

as costume designer, storäe fashioned garments for futuristic angels made from found objects and trash to be featured in an experimental documentary film addressing the inhumane treatment of immigrants.

following Ramesh, a Guyanese immigrant, the film records his walk to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices where he was required to check-in three times per week.

storäe was deeply moved to have clothed the two angels who accompany Ramesh, adorn him with amulets, and dress the state-imposed symbol of criminalization and injury, his house-arrest anklet. 

this procession took place in public, with the angels performing a public declaration of his humanity. it was groundbreaking to witness Ramesh walk in profound confidence in the busy streets of downtown NYC, and to watch crowds of people make room for him in a country where he struggled to find such space. 

storäe michele as co-editor & co-producer.

Humanitas: A Conscious Coloring of Kindness, a film by Jé Exodus Hooper

premiered at the New York Ethical Cultural Society Lincoln Center, NY, NY, 2019.

Felix Adler (Ritchie Szoke), the founder and philosopher of the Ethical Culture Movement, and W.E.B. DuBois (Joe Tolbert), the author of “the Souls of Black Folk” and activist-scholar, are re-imagined in this histo-contemporary retrospective of July 1900.

we journey with Adler and DuBois through a series of poetic prose, soulful music and choreo-movements, as they stir in one another justice through a new lens of nonreligious ethics, African-based spirituality, and civil philosophy.

cover photo with Jé Exodus Hooper.