Spring 2023 Showcase Fitts
Bethany Fitts
Find your focus
In this artistic and observational Taekwondo commercial, a high school student ties her black belt and walks onto the red and blue dojo floor. She rehearses punching and kicking techniques in a moment of focus. The commercial was made for the Elite Martial Arts Taekwondo studio in Oxford, Mississippi.
Mississippi Creates: Kill Command
Bethany Fitts tells genrebending stories that ask what it means to be alive, authentic, queer and kind in this strange and changing century. She is a writer, director and filmmaker whose work centers young folks as they navigate intergenerational narratives, selfhood, trauma and technology. Bethany locates any narrative of the American South within a planetary context.