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I Can Hear My Mother's Voice

Jordan Lord

2018 00:05:24 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

Made collaboratively with the filmmaker's mom Deborah, I Can Hear My Mother’s Voice documents her process of learning how to use the filmmaker's video camera. As Deborah watches the footage she has recorded, she reacts to and describes the footage she sees––showing what and how she sees––while opening up a space between sense, memory, speculation, and grief.

The film is open captioned and audio described in English. Still image description: Light sparkles on blue water. A caption at the bottom of the image reads: "that's beautiful."

About Jordan Lord

Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts; framing and support; access, disability, and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Union Docs, and Dokufest. Their film Shared Resources (2021) won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival and the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys, Artists Space, and Squeaky Wheel. Their work has been featured in publications such as Screen Slate, Filmmaker Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic.

Profile image description: Jordan Lord, a white person with a blonde mustache, smiles at the camera, wearing a hat and sunglasses, with their hands folded over their legs, as they sit on a red rock on a sunny day.