A curated selection of artists films that explore how language, communication and meaning circulates around disability, deafness, and chronic illness.

Shifting between experimentation and mistranslation, transparency and legibility, these films interrogate modes of speaking and listening. Here, access is a practice: negotiated in dialogue, shaped by communications technology and examined intimately. Crossed wires, soap-opera fragments, military exercises, and captioning labour collide, as lip-reading becomes a mode of resistance and play.

Mascara Film Club will be joined by artists for a post-screening discussion.

This programme is curated by Mascara Film Club.

Receiver, dir. Jenny Brady, Ireland 2022, 14 mins

All-around Feel Good, dir. Jordan Lord, USA 2024, 25 mins

The Extra’s Ever Moving Lips, dir. Lucy Clout, UK 2019, 8 mins

I Can Hear My Mother’s Voice, dir. Jordan Lord, USA 2021, 5 mins

Nurses II, dir. Lucy Clout, UK 2019, 5 mins

Protection, dir. Leah Clements, UK 2018, 7 mins

All films in this programme include descriptive subtitles. BSL interpretation will be provided for the introduction and post-screening discussion.