by Brian Bergen-Aurand One of the accepted modern understandings of dis/ability is as a lack or shortcoming to be overcome. Being dis/abled is associated with loss, vulnerability, and dependence. Something to be avoided, especially because of its “nature” as less than normal. Rarely, if ever, has deaf culture, blind culture, dis/abled culture been thought of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2014
The Sounds of Bones (Ossos)
by Brian Bergen-Aurand Although the trailer does not do it justice, the sound of Ossos (Pedro Costa, 1997) is what I cannot get out of my head. [While most of the film has no music on the soundtrack, the trailer has an engaging rock song laid over it.] If you do not already know Ossos … Continue reading
Foreign Influence 