Wills Glasspiegel

Originally released in 1998, "Icy Lake" is one of only three recordings by Dat Oven, a NYC-based house duo made up of Jeffery Gratton and Shunji Morawaki. Icy Lake connects the dots between legendary but oft-forgotten moments in 90s nightlife, vogue/ballroom culture, grime's Eskibeat movement, and the radical club constructions of the NS/F2M families. This documentary documents the re-discovery and re-release of the record by on a co-release on Fade To Mind and Night Slugs.

As a co-director and one of the dance crew, Murdamommy and Glasspiegel pay a beautiful and rigorous tribute to the women of Chicago footwork! I Am the Queen is edited, shot, produced by and starring the footwork crew themselves. What comes off as the most moving is, even though the sentence "I Am the Queen" on its own may come off as individualistic in tone, here it is an emblem of the crew and their communal activity. Mantra for the women who teach new moves to each other, whose presence graces everyone by virtue of who they are.