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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

Two People One Toilet

Robert, a young man who is intellectually disabled is taken to the park by his brother Tom. But what is meant to be an uneventful day trip proves to be the opposite.

Green SuperHeroes 2030

CANCELLED A group of 10 young environmentalists changing the world for the better. Their powers make the planet greener.

Trust Us, Conversations on M*therhood, Care and Working in the Arts

A documented conversation between 4 artists who are m*thers and are also either care-receivers or care-givers.â€‹ Developed from conversations had during the m*ther-artists talk programme.

silent dance

Silent Dance tells the story of Turkey's first ballerina with hearing impairment: Eda Tavaci's extraordinary relationship with sounds, music, people and her body. It draws a success story from the life full of difficulties and vulnerabilities of a young woman who...

Whale Wash – The Forgotten Whale

A maritime investigations team led by ESPA's Chief Operating Officer Pete Carr, pursues Norwegian whaling vessels at sea and films the whalers unethical hunting methods, and ESPA investigator Hannah interviews marine biologists, whaling experts and whaler skippers, to...

IN THE SEA

A professor travels to swim for 8km in Rio de Janeiro. He narrates the sensations of spending hours alone in the sea, unveiling issues such as the autonomy of the use of his body, the ableist discourse of overcoming, and racial inequality in his country. ...