Disabilities

Human Helper

By Michael McNeely | March 2021

SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Shaina Ghuraya’s short film Human Helper is about Dr. Rachel Hubbert (Nicole Evans), who researches artificial intelligence. Hubbert’s current…

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Shaina Ghuraya's short film Human Helper is about Dr. Rachel Hubbert (Nicole Evans), who researches artificial...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Endomic is a complex documentary that gives viewers much to think about and should not be missed. Written and...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Flying Eggs begins with Tony (Antonio Garcia Jr.) out for a morning jog. While running, an egg flying through the...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! The short film Stilts excels at creatively demonstrating what is wrong with placing the medical model of disability...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! In an intensely personal work director, Shaina Ghuraya and actor Angela Rockwood portray the impact of rape/sexual...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! There are many models of which to examine the concept of disability. The medical model espouses that doctors and other...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEWS! In My Layers, Susanne Serres explores the experience of artistic creation, psychosis, and recovery in a short...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Verisimilitude is a word that means "the appearance of being true or real." Due to the phenomenon of "cripping up,"...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! A groundbreaking point-of-view documentary exploring a non-fluent speaker's world. 14-year-old Emma challenges...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Sometimes, being a person with a disability, it is easy to think that is all people see of you. Once I depart this...

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