List of films on sign language/Deaf cultures

[Jessica Taylor]

Hi all,

 

Thanks to everyone who suggested films/resources! I've included a list
below, as well as some of the suggesters' descriptions:

 

"A Life without Words," (Dir: Adam Isenberg, 2012, DER;
http://www.der.org/films/life-without-words.html) about Nicaraguan siblings.
Described as ethnographic in style and raising uncomfortable questions. 

 

"Sound and Fury" (2007) - had some recommendations and some criticism,
especially surrounding it not respecting Deaf perspectives.

 

"In the Land of the Deaf" (Dir: Nicholas Philibert, 1992) had a number of
positive recommendations. It's filmed in France. 

 

'Touch the sound' by Thomas Riedelsheimer,
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/), about deaf percussionist Evelyn
Glennie.

 

PBS documentary 'Through Deaf Eyes'

 

Werner Herzog's 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)

 

"Hear and Now" (2007)

 

"The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox" (2009) --
http://signinghandsacrossthewater.com/2012/03/22/the-heart-of-the-hydrogen-j
ukebox/ about the ASL poetry movement in the 1980s at the National Technical
Institute of the Deaf (part of RIT, Rochester Institute of Technology)

 

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/deaf-jam/film.html

 

http://marla-hansen.com/film-scores/thus-spake-john/ - about a retired sign
language actor in the US performing the entirety of Milton's Paradise Lost

 

online resource for Central Australian Sign Language:
http://iltyemiltyem.com/sign/

 

 

-Jessica Taylor