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WHITE CANE AND WHEELS (2004)
How difficult would it be for a man with muscular dystrophy and a woman with retinitis pigmentosa to meet, fall in love and build a marriage that lasts 14 years and counting? For 40 years, Carmen was obsessed with becoming famous. She was a small theatre actress and talented dancer in spite of her disability. When she met Steven, she explains that Steven was the first person who she ever valued above her career. Steven’s muscular dystrophy increasingly limits his activities down to watching his beloved movies and listening to his music. It takes special effort to even so much as shave. But together, their personalities seem too large for their small apartment. Steven resents being stared at in public, and Carmen finds it endlessly frustrating running into obstacles. But their sense of humor, forgiveness, patience and understanding enable the soulmates to find happiness everyday.
(TRT 26 min. DVD Only Price $179.95 S&H $8.95) Click to sample film
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SHOOTING STARS
Millions of people across the globe are HIV+, and the numbers continue to increase. Although treatments for AIDS have improved, there still is no cure for this devastating disease. Tragically, improved medications have created a false sense of security: risky sexual behaviors and consequent HIV infections are increasing, especially in young, urban populations, both straight and gay. Produced and directed by Roberta Pyzel, SHOOTING STARS is a lively and honest portrait of eight men in group therapy living with AIDS. With candidness and courage, humor and love for each other, the men in this group show us all the dimensions of AIDS at its deepest emotional/spiritual levels as well as its effects on basic day-to-day living. Powerful insights about living with a life-threatening illness give this film universal significance as well. It is as crucial today that AIDS and its real effects be taken seriously as it was in 1994 when the 8 men in this group were originally videotaped.
(57 min. DVD only Price $195.00 S&H $8.95) Click to sample film
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VISUAL LYRICS (2005)
Produced by Johnny Robinson, a Hearing professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and shot over a 2 year period at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival VISUAL LYRICS is a 40 minute documentary video about ASL interpreting for performing arts. It considers the perspectives of all those associated with stage interpreting. The film reveals performance interpreting as an art form in it's own right. As we watch 4 interpreters interpret a variety of music, poetry & storytelling, the interpreters reveal the incredibly arduous task of processing, on the fly, poetic content from one syntactical structure to another. All spoken commentary is open captioned for Deaf viewers and all on-screen ASL is voice interpreted for the Signing-Impaired.
(40 min. DVD only Price $169.95 S&H $8.95) Click to sample film
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VISIBLE MEMORIES (2004)
The issue of self-injury is surrounded by stigma and misunderstanding. Such behaviour is often labelled as attention seeking or, mistakenly, as attempted suicide. Produced in the UK by Mind In Croydin -- a significant provider of mental health services -- VISIBLE MEMORIES allows people who self-injure to describe their experiences. They tell us some of the reasons why they self-injure and what approaches they find helpful or unhelpful. Setting self-injury in a more general context of self-harm, the film argues that such behaviour is a valid coping mechanism for dealing with internal emotional distress, and that consequently, the challenge for those who do not self-injure is to come to terms with their own feelings in relating to those who do. (27 min. DVD only Price $179.95 S&H $8.95)
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GETTING OFF (2005)
(For Women's Studies, Human Sexuality & Psychology Programs)
A gut-wrenching confessional that mixes sex and emotional violence with insight and redemption, GETTING OFF is a remarkable film from Director Julie Lynch that explores the dark side of sexuality from a woman's perspective. Lynch, who abandoned a career on Wall Street to pursue a career in film, describes GETTING OFF as a psychological drama about what its like to be a woman who doesn't own her own body. The story of a rape survivor, GETTING OFF is both provocative and sensitive, as it exposes the truth about women's relationships to sex, to men, and to each other. "I think every female undergraduate should watch this [film]. After doing this for so many years, you come in contact with so many different victims. To me this just really captured it."--Capt. Bob Staehle, Operations Commander, University of South Florida Police Department/ Nudity, Adult Language & Violence
(83 min. DVD only Price $199.95 S&H $8.95)
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