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Shared Resources

Jordan Lord

2021 01:38:12 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker’s own debt. Following their parents’ day-to-day lives and father’s progressing disability, the film uses open captions and visual descriptions to provide access to Blind and Deaf audiences and to reflect how their family sees themselves in the film. Meanwhile, as their parents and the filmmaker confront our very different understandings of debt and disability, the film asks what it means to owe each other everything.

The film is open captioned and audio described in English. Still image description: A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair stands next to a bald man wearing glasses, in front of an ocean and a cloudy blue sky. They both stare at the camera. A caption at the bottom of the image reads: "My mom and dad pose for the camera, standing on a pier".

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.