It Fell on Deaf Ears

Nov 7, 2016

0h 15m

★ 0.0

Deafhood through Graphic Signed Novel

Overview

Because Quebec Sign Language cannot be captured on paper, videography has revealed itself to be the best way to represent this visual language. The first ‘comic strip’ in sign language, the film depicts snatches of conversations between various deaf and hearing protagonists. A visit to a silent world, where the hearing impaired ask us to listen to them.

Genres

Animation

Documentary

Production Companies

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Université de Montréal

Fondation des Sourds du Québec

Cinéall

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Cast

Émilie Boulet-Lévesque

Denise Lefebvre

Daz Saunders

Pamela Witcher

Theara Yim

Hodan Youssouf

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid and successively repetitive montage cuts between the image of the street and the corners of the video frame itself produce new textures and shapes in our brain, whilst the sound follows the same rhythmic movements by emphasizing different “corners” (frequencies) from the bird’s singing. The energetic potency stemming from the junction of these elements creates a new image that is almost tactitle, maleable and rippling. The result is a somewhat humorous operation of the portuguese word "corner" throughout the different stages of making the piece, finally unveiling a piercing physical and kinetic experience for all the corners of our eyes and ears.

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It Fell on Deaf Ears

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