The How We Look Project

The How We Look Project brings together three concise narrative films that explore dwarf culture and identity, created and performed by Little People (LPs). Each installment centers on a single act of image-making, spanning Renaissance portraiture, sideshow photography, and medical imaging. APPOINTMENT: three LPs named Avery visit a doctor who is more captivated by his own medical technology than by the patients before him. CARNIVAL: Jessica and her "Midget troupe" pose for a 1924 souvenir postcard. But this moment of commodification also offers Jessica rare hope to reach her disappeared lover and the outside world. COURT: Fabio, a Court Dwarf in 1572 Italy, endures the awkward act of being painted and wonders if this image can be a means of communicating with future dwarfs.