My Name is Blackbird, a dance film by Nadia Oussenko, is an intimate documentary of one year in Molly Shanahan’s transformative movement investigations during the creation of My Name is Blackbird. The documentary, which premiered in October of 2007 at the Loyola University Museum of Art, reveals Shanahan’s evolution through dance-for-the-camera vignettes interwoven with footage that exposes aspects of an artist and her creative process rarely seen in performance alone. Oussenko’s direction expertly guides us through the enigmatic and provocative dance-making of Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak.