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An All-Around Feel Good

Jordan Lord

2024 00:26:58 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

This essay film asks what it means to be an audience, in the wake of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which claims but often fails to prohibit discrimination against disabled workers and audiences in the United States. Tangling common sense representations of disability, labor, and national identity, the film questions the purported goodness of putting disabled people to work in underpaid contexts ranging from captioning and transcribing to fabricating textiles for the U.S. military.

The film is open captioned and audio described in English. Description of still image: Soldiers lower to the ground, doing a training exercise in a green space in a park, framed by a black border. Beneath the image there’s a caption that reads: “Or another way of saying it is: how these images are put to work.”

Produced with Abby Sun
Re-recording Mix by Emile Klein
Special Thanks to Shoumik Bhattacharya, Ekrem Serdar, Tiffany Sia, Park McArthur, Jason Hirata, Reid Davenport, Keith Wilson, Emily Lim Rogers, Arom Choi, Johanna Hedva, Pooja Rangan, Em Hedditch, Emerson Goo

About Jordan Lord

Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts; framing and support; access, disability, and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Union Docs, and Dokufest. Their film Shared Resources (2021) won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival and the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys, Artists Space, and Squeaky Wheel. Their work has been featured in publications such as Screen Slate, Filmmaker Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic.

Profile image description: Jordan Lord, a white person with a blonde mustache, smiles at the camera, wearing a hat and sunglasses, with their hands folded over their legs, as they sit on a red rock on a sunny day.