L'Hesitance

The animated short L'Hesitance emerged from Covid-19 quarantine and the outgrowth of the superstructures of surveillance capitalism, paranoia, white nationalism, and what is being called the "post-real." Influenced by (and parodying) the French sci-fi classic, La Jetée (1962), the work is a remix of a decade-old animation by Tony Coleman called, "Conspirabee." Directors John Jota Leaños (Xicano-Italian/Chumash) and Sean Levon Nash (Choctaw, Muskogee Creek) set out to complete the new work within a three-week period. The work was not intended to be released to the public as it was purely an animation exercise. However, when the animation was completed and shared with a select few, the response was quite astounding as people related to this work's humor, seriousness, and non-sequitur reflection of living in a pandemic.