I am Tejimola

在准备开始新的一天时，主人公感到了一股不祥的存在，并很快与之正面交锋。在这场对抗中，TA们从童年时听过的一个故事中汲取了力量。 

《我是特吉莫拉》是一部动画短片，从主人公的视角重新讲述了一个阿萨姆的经典民间故事。影片探讨了酷儿身份、性别表达与流动性，并将其视为一种反抗方式。 

While getting ready for the day, the protagonist feels the presence of something sinister, and soon comes to face it. During their confrontation, they turn to a childhood story for strength. 

Tejimola-he moi is an animated short film that re-tells a classic Assamese folktale, through the eyes of our protagonist’s personal experiences. It talks about queerness, gender expression, and fluidity as a form of resistance.   

导演：阿迪塔夫·多韦拉
编剧：阿迪塔夫·多韦拉
主演：阿迪塔夫·多韦拉、阿迪蒂·奇特尔、斯凯·马汉塔、切尔西
摄影：阿迪塔夫·多韦拉
类型：动画短片
对白语言：阿萨姆语

Director: Aditav Dowerah 
Screenwriter: Aditav Dowerah 
Cast: Aditav Dowerah, Aditi Chitre, Skye Mahanta, Chelsie
Cinematographer: Aditav Dowerah 
Genre: Animated Short Film
Language: Assamese

阿迪塔夫·多韦拉是一位来自印度阿萨姆的设计师。他毕业于印度理工学院孟买分校设计学院，并获得了传播设计双学位。作为一名视觉艺术家，他致力于在图像与故事中探索质感与微妙之处，并热爱多层次的叙事结构。他喜欢版画制作，手上忙碌不停（还常常沾满颜料），也乐于像对孩子那样和动物说话。 

Aditav Dowerah is a designer from Assam, India. He graduated from IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, with a Dual Degree in Communication Design. Primarily a visual artist, he tries to explore tangibility and nuances in his pictures and storytelling, and has a love for layered narratives. He enjoys keeping his hands busy (and messy) with printmaking, and baby-talking to animals.   

我相信民间故事的魅力在于，尽管它们常常充满幻想，却始终扎根于关于生活的某些核心真理或意义之中。人们总能从中汲取价值或启示，这使它们得以跨越时间的长河——也正因如此，它们才能代代相传。当我第一次听到特吉莫拉的故事时，它便一直留在我心中。在创作这部作品的过程中，这个民间故事自然成为了一个重要的参照，让我能重新回望它，并围绕它构建这段酷儿叙事。 

我认为“重述”与“改编”的力量也正源于此——让人们重新思考自己看待世界的方式。它先呈现出人们熟悉的事物，再融入陌生的元素，从而让人反思并重塑自己的世界观。而我认为，这种对常规的质疑，正是当今世界所最为需要的。 

I believe the beauty of folktales is that although they are oftentimes fantastical in nature, they stay grounded in some core truths or meanings of life. There is always some value or learning that one can draw from them, which makes them timeless——which is why they stay with people for generations. Tejimola’s story stayed with me since the first time I heard it, and while working on this project, the folktale seemed an obvious parallel to revisit and build this queer narrative around. 

I think retellings and adaptations are powerful in this sense——it makes people rethink their entire perspective in a way. It displays something that is very familiar to people, and then adding the unfamiliar to it forces one to reflect and rebuild their worldview. And I think this questioning of the norm is what the world needs more of.