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TOMOMI YOKOO

| Japan

| 00:11:42

2:00pm Saturday 1st March 2025

we are deaf. video poem. A video that pursues physical expression using the body cultivated through sign language. The physical expressions of deaf elderly people are especially beautiful.
All the performers were deaf, and they asked others to act as if they were the actual daughters and mothers. I tried to make this video look like it was talking to us in sign language, and it looked like it was dancing, giving it a strange feeling.

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Programme

Technology for Talking

Technology for Talking is a bright cut out animation which introduces voice output communication aids and explains how and why some people talk using assistive technology. Using the electronic voice and perspective of its disabled filmmaker, it challenges stereotypes...

Picturing Wonderland

Picturing Wonderland reflects a collaboration between the filmmakers and Maud Rowell, an experimental snapshot of the experience of living with a degenerative blindness. The film explores Maud's fascinating relationship with the colours of the world around her as well...

We’ve Been Bamboozled!

Recent revelations show that the fossil fuel industries, over the course of many decades, sponsored scientific research about the potential consequences of burning fossil fuels on the earth's environment, which concluded that the impact would be 'dramatic' and...

Crip/Mad Archive Dances

How do disabled and mad people survive, dance, insert their differences in a world full of stigma? How do we live through bodymindspirit experiences of alienation and pain? This experimental documentary charts disability culture archives and embodied gestures of...

Autistic Joy

Autistic Joy is a micro short poetry film exploring the side of autism that often goes unspoken and under-explored: the joyful. From happy stimming to sensory delight, Autistic Joy delivers an insight into the positives within our autistic experience....

Dyslexia & Me

Our film explores the topic and difficulties of Dyslexia in primary school through the character of Lily. She is often a misunderstood, isolated and frustrated character. Initially unaware she has Dyslexia, she questions why her friends find reading and writing so...