RestFest Film Festival 2024

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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 Miriam

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"

"www.restfestfilmfestiva.org"

  • Runtime
    1 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Social Media
  • Cast
    alexa dexa
  • Editor
    Bec Penner