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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

Invisible barriers

"Invisible Barriers" looks at the lives of three young people with functional diversity: Ylenia, LoriÃ©n and Elson have to face architectural barriers in their daily lives and in their educational environment, as well as other more hidden barriers.

These Are The Sounds I Make

Simi a young woman with disabilities communicates in many different ways from making sounds and gestures to using conversation cards and new technologies. She enjoys getting out into nature, dancing, creating art, connecting with friends and being involved in...

Traveling Light

Follow the tightly-knit community on their symbolic journey into the woods. They carry only the experiences, memories, and dreams that matter to them. Traveling Light, a short dance film celebrating performers with disabilities, reveals the language of movement as a...

Pripyat Horse

"A sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while; but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing." Bede A moment for mourning, for a friend, for the earth....

Drowning

Drowning is a solo project and personal reflection on parenting in poverty.

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.