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Welcome to the inaugural RestFest Film Festival!
Access: Closed Captioning and Audio Description are available.
See a more comprehensive video description at the bottom of this description.
Credits:
Edited by Bec Penner
Audio Description Written and Performed by alexa dexa
Written Video Description by alexa dexa
Featuring films by (in order of appearance): Sara Wylie, Olga F. Koroleva, Erica Monde, Rowena Harris, Kit Blamire, alexa dexa, Thomas & Curtis Nishimoto, Sasha Fourie, Sunniva Innstrand, Emmitt Thrower, Kym McDaniel, Cynthia Ling Lee, ann haeyoung, Holly Summerson, Steven Fraser, Ruby Que, Sop, and Salima Punjani.
Full Video Description:
In bold text: "RestFest Presents” “with the support of Descriptive Video Works” “the inaugural RestFest Film Festival”
Sara Wylie tosses and turns in bed, resting in Resistance Meditation.
Close up of a Calisia plant in Hidden by Olga F. Koroleva.
Bold Text reads: “FROM DISABLED, DEAF, CHRONICALLY ILL, NEURODIVERGENT, MENTALLY ILL, AND/OR MAD ARTISTS.”
Someone in a tyvek suit is spraying down nature in There’s Not Much We Can Do by Erica Monde.
A CG animation of someone in virtual reality in Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief by Rowena Harris.
Kit Blamire in Flare in a small stream of water, dancing in a hospital gown.
In bold text: “STREAM films & video art, CONNECT with community, ATTEND virtual events,”
alexa dexa in Be a Doll screaming, laying on their back in a kiddy pool.
A young person looking around outside, perplexed in Operation: Wet Paint by Thomas & Curtis Nishimoto
Two folks holding each other’s hair and twisting it around in a gorgeous weave on a picturesque cliff by the water in Braid by Sasha Fourie.
A hand playing in the water, flowers sticking up in Life In The Shadowlands by Sunniva Innstrand.
Leroy Moore Jr. with his cane in front of a stop sign, body in motion, like a sermon to the world in A Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried by Emmitt Thrower.
A hand placed on the blue paint marking a disability parking space in Invisible World by Kym McDaniel.
Cynthia Ling Lee moving outside, smiling in moss time, crip time.
Phone-mate innards of electronics under a magnifying glass, in Doulas of the Computer Age by ann haeyoung.
A tiny skeleton animation gestures above text “don’t worry,” in Living With It by Holly Summerson.
Vibrant animation of a hand holding a phone with a face on the screen in Coming Out Autistic by Steven Fraser.
The view out a window in Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting by Ruby Que.
Sop breathing hot air onto a pane of glass in Pneuma (revisited).
In bold text: "Creating on Crip Time" surfaces over water reflecting light in Salima Punjani’s Rest Ritual.
In bold text on a black screen: "August 15-22, 2024" "Access the entire festival in bed"
Welcome to the inaugural RestFest Film Festival!
Access: Closed Captioning and Audio Description are available.
See a more comprehensive video description at the bottom of this description.
Credits:
Edited by Bec Penner
Audio Description Written and Performed by alexa dexa
Written Video Description by alexa dexa
Featuring films by (in order of appearance): Sara Wylie, Olga F. Koroleva, Erica Monde, Rowena Harris, Kit Blamire, alexa dexa, Thomas & Curtis Nishimoto, Sasha Fourie, Sunniva Innstrand, Emmitt Thrower, Kym McDaniel, Cynthia Ling Lee, ann haeyoung, Holly Summerson, Steven Fraser, Ruby Que, Sop, and Salima Punjani.
Full Video Description:
In bold text: "RestFest Presents” “with the support of Descriptive Video Works” “the inaugural RestFest Film Festival”
Sara Wylie tosses and turns in bed, resting in Resistance Meditation.
Close up of a Calisia plant in Hidden by Olga F. Koroleva.
Bold Text reads: “FROM DISABLED, DEAF, CHRONICALLY ILL, NEURODIVERGENT, MENTALLY ILL, AND/OR MAD ARTISTS.”
Someone in a tyvek suit is spraying down nature in There’s Not Much We Can Do by Erica Monde.
A CG animation of someone in virtual reality in Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief by Rowena Harris.
Kit Blamire in Flare in a small stream of water, dancing in a hospital gown.
In bold text: “STREAM films & video art, CONNECT with community, ATTEND virtual events,”
alexa dexa in Be a Doll screaming, laying on their back in a kiddy pool.
A young person looking around outside, perplexed in Operation: Wet Paint by Thomas & Curtis Nishimoto
Two folks holding each other’s hair and twisting it around in a gorgeous weave on a picturesque cliff by the water in Braid by Sasha Fourie.
A hand playing in the water, flowers sticking up in Life In The Shadowlands by Sunniva Innstrand.
Leroy Moore Jr. with his cane in front of a stop sign, body in motion, like a sermon to the world in A Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried by Emmitt Thrower.
A hand placed on the blue paint marking a disability parking space in Invisible World by Kym McDaniel.
Cynthia Ling Lee moving outside, smiling in moss time, crip time.
Phone-mate innards of electronics under a magnifying glass, in Doulas of the Computer Age by ann haeyoung.
A tiny skeleton animation gestures above text “don’t worry,” in Living With It by Holly Summerson.
Vibrant animation of a hand holding a phone with a face on the screen in Coming Out Autistic by Steven Fraser.
The view out a window in Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting by Ruby Que.
Sop breathing hot air onto a pane of glass in Pneuma (revisited).
In bold text: "Creating on Crip Time" surfaces over water reflecting light in Salima Punjani’s Rest Ritual.
In bold text on a black screen: "August 15-22, 2024" "Access the entire festival in bed"
