DCP | 2021 | Directed by Jordan Lord | United States | 98 minutes | English
Made over five years, Jordan Lord’s feature-length documentary Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker and their family after Lord’s father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Following their parents day to day lives and the filmmaker’s complicated relationship with them, the film self-reflexively utilizes open captions and visual descriptions both to provide access to Blind and Deaf audiences and to open the processes of documentary-making and reception. Much as the film finds the ties of moral, institutional, societal, and financial debt amongst the filmmaker and their family members, it accordingly asks what debts are owed to audiences.
The filmmaker will be present for a conversation and Q&A with Yale’s Neta Alexander following the screening.