Imaginings

Anja Hiddinga

Netherlands / 2022 / Experimental, Fiction / 13’0”I2300203

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SYNOPSIS

In Imaginings six young, deaf ‘signed word’ artists (Kitchen’s Light), present poems in sign language. They share the struggles and dreams of their generation, showing the power and beauty of their language for signing and non-signing viewers alike. Their poetry emanates confidence, addressing the suppression of deaf people and signed languages as well as the vulnerabilities of being different.

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