recommendation documentary on a Sign Language/Deaf community

[Celso Alvarez Cáccamo]

There is Werner Herzog's extraordinary documentary about deaf-blind people including quite a bit about deaf-blind communication, Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, 1971). It is no light, uplifting stuff. It is 85 min. long, but it's worth two sessions of whatever university course deals with language and communication.

-celso

Celso Alvarez Cáccamo
lxalvarz at udc.es

A 2014/01/31, às 13:26, Alastair Cole escreveu:

> I would also very much recommend Frank's suggestion of Nicholas Philibert's film 'In the Land of the Deaf'. It's a wonderful piece of cinema which I use to teach both documentary practice and to raise discussion on various themes in linguistic anthropology with students from other academic areas.
> 
> You may also want to have a look at 'Touch the sound' by Thomas Riedelsheimer, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/) while not directly engaging with sign language as much as Philibert's film, it is a great exploration of the world of deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and again provides plenty to discuss within themes of deaf communities and communication.
> 
> If you need short documentary films, i.e. 10-15min films let me know and I can pass on some more titles as there have been a few that have been made over the last while that could be useful.
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> 
> Alastair
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> 
> Quoting Jessica Taylor <jessica.taylor at UTORONTO.CA> on Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:41:31 -0500:
> 
>> Does anyone know of a good documentary to show undergrads on a sign language
>> and/or Deaf community/culture? It's for a 1st year seminar on Language and
>> Diversity (where diversity could be multilingualism, gender, ethnicity,
>> globalization, translation, etc.). Ideally it would be 30-60 minutes, but
>> all recommendations welcome!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jessica Taylor
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> University of Toronto
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>> 
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