Through Deaf Eyes - Documentary Film

VIDEO [CC] - The 90 minute production for PBS: History "Through Deaf Eyes" will take a look at Deaf culture from the 19th century to the present in the United States of America.



Through Deaf Eyes is a two-hour HDTV documentary for PBS exploring nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America. The film presents the shared experiences of American history family life, education, work, and community connections from the perspective of Deaf citizens.



Interviews include community leaders, historians, and Deaf Americans with diverse views on language use, technology and identity. Bringing a Deaf cinematic lens to the film are six artistic works by Deaf media artists and filmmakers.



Poignant, sometimes humorous, these films draw on the media artists' own lives and are woven throughout the documentary. But the core of the film remains the larger story of Deaf life in America - a story of conflicts, prejudice and affirmation that reaches the heart of what it means to be human.

Through Deaf Eyes does not approach the topic of deaf history from the perspective of sentimentality or overcoming, nor does it deny the physical reality of being deaf.



The documentary takes a straight-forward look at life for people who are part of the cultural-linguistic group who use American Sign Language and often define themselves as "Deaf" with a capital, and cultural, "D" and deaf people who, for a variety of reasons, do not identify with the Deaf cultural community.



The history often shows that intersections between deaf and Deaf people are many and that oppression and discrimination are common experiences. Source



Directors: Diane Garey, Lawrence R. Hott

Writers: Ken Chowder, Jack R. Gannon, Tracey Salaway

Stars: Linda Gabriel, Stockard Channing, Ed Chevy, See full cast and crew



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Internet Slang Meets American Sign Language

Exclusive: How do you sign "new" words? The Deaf community works as a network, collectively brainstorming new sign language term over the web, until dominant emerge.

Hope&Fears - As language evolves, the powers that regulate language tend to shift. Just look at the Oxford English Dictionary, who added terms like “duck face,” “lolcat,” and “hawt” to their prestigious lexicon this past December. For the English-speaking world, these additions are anywhere from ridiculous to annoying but at the end of the day, the terms are accepted and agreed upon.



But how do these new, internet-laden turns of phrase enter the sign language community? Was there a way of expressing “selfie” in ASL, was there a sign for “photobomb?” Our simplistic question turned into a larger conversation about the nature of communication.



We turned to Bill Vicars, the president and owner of an organization called Lifeprint, a company who educates through “technology-enhanced delivery of ASL Instruction, excursion-based instruction (trips to amusement parks), and extended-immersion-based program coordination (intense two-week residencies).”



Vicars himself is Deaf/HH, which means he is hard of hearing and culturally Deaf as he has immersed himself in the Deaf community. “In addition to my co workers, the majority of my friends are Deaf… my wife is Deaf,” Vicars explains. (Capitalizing ‘Deaf’ refers to the Deaf community, as noted by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, in Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (1988), “We use the lowercase deaf when referring to the audiological condition of not hearing, and the uppercase Deaf when referring to a particular group of deaf people who share a language - American Sign Language (ASL) - and a culture.”)



Vicars' website also offers a dictionary of ASL signs. The dictionary has been an ongoing project for Vicars since he started his organization and his means of including words is a multi-tiered process... Read more with photobombs: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/internet/internet-american-sign-language

ASL Music Video 'Wrecking Ball' Rosina Mae

VIDEO [CC] - ASL Music Video: 'Wrecking Ball' By Miley Cyrus, starring Rosina Mae.

ASL Performance by Rosina Mae.

Directed by Adrean Mangiardi.

Cinematography by Bryan McCollough.

Assistant Director : Mark Levin.

Location Scout : Mark Levin.

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Music video by Miley Cyrus performing Wrecking Ball. (C) 2013 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment - Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball

si5s: ASL Literacy and Establish ASL Corpus

VIDEO [ASL/CC] - si5s org is a non-profit organization to spread ASL literacy and establish ASL corpus across the ASL community.



si5s is a writing system used for American Sign Language (ASL) that resembles a handwritten form of SignWriting. It was invented in 2003 in New York City by Robert Arnold.



si5s is the English spelling of the name for American Sign Language in writing. We provide workshops, presentations and training on ASL writing for K-12 education, ASL classes, and the Deaf/ASL community. See more details at wikipedia.org/wiki/Si5s.



Introduction to American Sign Language Writing by Robert Arnold.

Video by si5s Produced and Directed by Jules Dameron of Damname Productions. http://www.damname.com



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