LITANY

EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

A VAM STUDIO Production

With Support from Rebuild Foundation
+ The Chicago Dancemakers Forum

Directed, Shot and Edited x Jordan Phelps

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A Dance Film in 5 Parts Manifested & Performed by
Po’ Chop | Jenn Freeman (@itspochop)

LITANY uses brown paper and imagination to create new worlds full of rumbling anger and playful humor.

LITANY is a voyage through a wooden dollhouse. A prayer whispered in grass-lined lots. A leap into the historical pages of Ebony Magazine. A collage.

LITANY is an exorcism expelling antiquated notions of Blackness, queer identity, spirituality, grace, rage, and healing.

Produced x VAM STUDIO

Trailer Music x 6erronimo 
Coloring x Sam Howells


Read more about the project here @ THE CHICAGO READER
and visit Po’ Chop @ www.itspochop.com/litany



Part I - “TORCHY’S TOGS” 



Part II - “ISSUE (of blood)”



Part III - “COLLAGE” 



Part IV - “EBONY” 



Part V - “DYNAMITE” 

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Directed, Shot and Edited x Jordan Phelps 
Color x Sam Howells 
VFX x Megan McGuire
Music x Lil Hardin Armstrong + Kai Engel 
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Directed, Shot and Edited x Jordan Phelps
Color x Sam Howells
Music “Might Be Eternity” by Nia Andrews
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Directed, Shot and Edited x Jordan Phelps
Music “BISH Interlude” x 6eronnimo
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Directed, Shot and Edited x Jordan Phelps
Color x Sam Howells
VFX x Myra Rivera
Music “Ebony” x Jae Rice
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Directed, Shot and Edited x Jordan Phelps
Color x Sam Howells
Music “Precious Lorde” x avery r. young
        “1000 Deaths” x D’Angelo and the Vanguard
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