Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back (1998)
Douban
director:
David Mitchell
/
Sharon Snyder
genre:
Documentary
region:
United States
language:
English
length: 49m
release date: 1998
overview
A documentary about a national disability arts community that explores disability as the experience of a politically disenfranchised constituency. Consists of interviews and clips of performance pieces from a variety of artistic formats including: performance art, fiction, poetry, stand-up comedy, drama, personal anecdotes and scholarly research. Pursues a definition of a culture of disability through questions of architectural inaccessibility, political activism, mainstream representations of disability in literature, film, art and television, and in a narrative of shared struggle to gain access 1998. 49 min.