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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

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.

Whacked

How do disabled or deficient workers perceive global warming? In the North-East of France, a succession of interviews in an ESAT, a kind of factory in a protected environment, leads these atypical people to wonder about climate change and its consequences.

Dolls

A coming of age comedy, set in the early 00s, Dolls tells the story of Cherry and her unsolicited collection of judgemental porcelain dolls as she explores her transition into sexual maturity and faces the anguish of leaving her childhood behind.

Burnt Country

Could Australia's past help secure its future? 65,000 years in the making, Burnt Country is about fighting fire, with fire. Exploring the profound knowledge and wisdom of First Nations, this film is an invitation to connect to country and community.

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...

Imagination

Imagination is a lively, colourful cut-out animation inspired by Matisse paper cuts. The disabled and deaf protagonist in her pink wheelchair escapes from a grey street into an exhibition where artworks interact with her through movement and sign, bringing life and...