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Alli Logout (they/them) is a black, sex non-conforming filmmaker and performance musician

Whose work explores the south, the abject, and also the human anatomy. They create cinematic experiments that are social collaboration with non-professional actors to writer counter-narratives from of their very very own communities and subcultures. Centering Blackness and Queerness into the Southern, the creation of the identities, and their deconstruction, Logout’s work uses the materials of lived-in stories to propose a brand new type of being, never as a dream, however with foot securely planted in the now. A BFA is held by them in Media Studies from UNT and were recently a 2019 resident at ACRE (Artist’s Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions). Their work happens to be seen nationwide and internationally, including exhibitions and tests during the SOMArts Cultural Center in san francisco bay area, BFI Flare, London, Mix NYC, nyc, while the Korea Queer heritage Festival, Seoul. Their film Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush (2015) won ‘Best Feminist Short’ during the Scottish Queer Global Film Festival. Logout can be the journalist and vocalist of this punk band, Special Interest. They have been co-founder and co-director of Studio LaLaLa, a black colored and trans operated production studio focused on aiding underprivileged communities within the creation of the narratives that are own.