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?Doll Parts" is a moving portrait shot on 16mm film which explores the nature of identity through exploring the lives of two young musicians. Filmed against the cinematic backdrop of Los Angeles, "Doll Parts" pays homage to the traces of Americana which still exist on the fringes of its modern culture. China Morbosa, the film`s central character personifies a presence of the heroes of the late 1970s punk rock movement and the free spiritedness reminiscent of the Beat and Hippie generations.

Muzi Quawson (1978, London, UK) is a British photographer whose characteristic cinematic style reflects her love for American subculture which stems from the New Wave American Cinema from the 1970s. Quawson`s practice explores the lives of real people who are situated on the fringes of mainstream society, and she sets out to explore their everyday lives by producing works which explore their construction of self with using the mediums of photography and the moving image. Muzi Quawson studied at KIAD in Rochester, Kent and the Royal College of Art in London and to date, her work has been featured at the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Manchester; Tate Triennial 2006, the Barbican Art Gallery, London and the GANA Art Centre Seoul. Solo Exhibitions include the Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam and the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. Her work has also recently been screened at the IDFA, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.