HEARD profiles Hard of Hearing (HoH) creatives across BC who use their hearing loss to further their practice as artists and creatives. Guided by HoH filmmaker Brian Ceci, the film visually explores the everyday lived experiences in a dramatic and comedic way, contextualizing for the audience what it's truly like to live with hearing loss.
I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it.
The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.
Anna May Wong was a talented actress and a fashion icon and still had to fight for everything she had due to hatred and racism.
“The most disrespected person in America is the Black Woman/the most unprotected person in America is the Black Woman,” Director Spivey Jr quotes. The quotes are absolutely true. Misogynoir is a devastating social ill that is not given the weight it is due.
I am shocked and upset to report that the movie about a female car mechanic who meets the love of her life online featuring Katy O’Brien does not, in fact, have a lesbian storyline.
