Open captions / Two films from this program include audio descriptions
New Channels of Access gathers together short videos by Carolyn Lazard, Leroy Moore Jr., Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell, Liza Sylvestre, Joseph Grigely, Christine Sun Kim, and Thomas Mader to explore the last three decades of creative struggles and expressions within disability culture and politics. Through a variety of means and perspectives, these works expand and complicate systems of communication, particularly in regard to film and video, while examining the practices (and systemic failings) of accessibility and accommodations. This program is organized in the spirit of Mitchell and Snyder’s insistence that disability subjectivities “are not just characterized by socially imposed restrictions, but productively create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness.”
Presented as part of This Set of Actions is a Mirror, multipart look at expressions of disability culture and politics in artists’ moving images.
Related programs:
Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999, USA, 95 minutes, ASL and open captions
Streaming February 25–March 3
Panel discussion with Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre, and Minh Nguyen
Thursday, February 25, 7:00 p.m. CT
This event will have live captions and ASL interpretation.
Using visual observations, lip-reading, body language, and accessibility technology like her own cochlear implant, Liza Sylvestre stages an exercise in deciphering the speech of various television shows—including cartoons whose mouths are impossible to “read.” Adding her observations as captions, she creates an intimate, annotative commentary that adds a new communicative layer altogether.
[Image: A cartoon image of a white young man. He has dark reddish-brown hair that is pulled away from his forehead with a wide blue headband. His shirt is a dark green color with a mandarin collar. His face is tilted back slightly and he appears to be speaking, his mouth open. The lower right side of his face, as well as part of his neck, and the underside of his nose are all lit from below while the rest of his face is in shadow. Behind him are indistinguishable green and black forest-textures. At the bottom of the screen are captions that read “A hologram of movement.”]
- Year2017
- Runtime12 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- FilmmakerLiza Sylvestre
Open captions / Two films from this program include audio descriptions
New Channels of Access gathers together short videos by Carolyn Lazard, Leroy Moore Jr., Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell, Liza Sylvestre, Joseph Grigely, Christine Sun Kim, and Thomas Mader to explore the last three decades of creative struggles and expressions within disability culture and politics. Through a variety of means and perspectives, these works expand and complicate systems of communication, particularly in regard to film and video, while examining the practices (and systemic failings) of accessibility and accommodations. This program is organized in the spirit of Mitchell and Snyder’s insistence that disability subjectivities “are not just characterized by socially imposed restrictions, but productively create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness.”
Presented as part of This Set of Actions is a Mirror, multipart look at expressions of disability culture and politics in artists’ moving images.
Related programs:
Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999, USA, 95 minutes, ASL and open captions
Streaming February 25–March 3
Panel discussion with Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre, and Minh Nguyen
Thursday, February 25, 7:00 p.m. CT
This event will have live captions and ASL interpretation.
Using visual observations, lip-reading, body language, and accessibility technology like her own cochlear implant, Liza Sylvestre stages an exercise in deciphering the speech of various television shows—including cartoons whose mouths are impossible to “read.” Adding her observations as captions, she creates an intimate, annotative commentary that adds a new communicative layer altogether.
[Image: A cartoon image of a white young man. He has dark reddish-brown hair that is pulled away from his forehead with a wide blue headband. His shirt is a dark green color with a mandarin collar. His face is tilted back slightly and he appears to be speaking, his mouth open. The lower right side of his face, as well as part of his neck, and the underside of his nose are all lit from below while the rest of his face is in shadow. Behind him are indistinguishable green and black forest-textures. At the bottom of the screen are captions that read “A hologram of movement.”]
- Year2017
- Runtime12 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- FilmmakerLiza Sylvestre
