7
September
4-5.30PM
The Complex Dublin
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DISSOLUTIONS 2024: ‘Shared Resources’ by Jordan Lord

7 September 2024 / 4-5.30PM / The Complex Dublin
Jordan Lord's intimate feature length documentary was filmed with his family over five years, sensitively portraying their bonds and struggles.
A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair stands next to a bald man wearing glasses, in front of an ocean and a cloudy blue sky. They both stare at the camera. A caption at the bottom of the image reads: "My mom and dad pose for the camera, standing on a pier".

Shared Resources. 2021. Directed by Jordan Lord. Courtesy the filmmaker.

This film was selected with artist & filmmaker Jenny Brady who will also introduce the screening. 

Shared Resources depicts Lord’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker’s student debt. Following their parents’ day-to-day lives and their dad’s progressing disability, the film uses open captions and visual descriptions to provide access to Blind and Deaf audiences and to reflect how their family sees themselves in the film. Meanwhile, as Lord and their parents confront their very different understandings of debt and disability, the film asks what it means to owe each other everything.

“In Jordan Lord’s highly personal features multiple viewpoints are expressed through audio descriptions and open captions, making access a constituent element of the film and interrupting the primacy of any one form of spectatorship. Poignant but also wonderfully tender and humorous, Lord’s work asks what it truly means to be bonded with another person—and to owe each other everything.” MOMA

Film info:
Jordan Lord, Shared Resources, U.S.A., 2021, 98 minutes

Please note: This film contains flickering images. Viewers with photosensitivity or epilepsy should use caution.

Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts, framing and support, access and documentary. They currently teach at Vassar College and CUNY Hunter College.

Jenny Brady is an artist filmmaker based in Dublin, exploring ideas around speech, translation and
communication. Her films have been presented at LUX, The New York Film Festival, Viennale, Berwick
Film & Media Arts Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Docs
Ireland (with AEMI), This Long Century, MUBI, Essay Film Festival, International Kurzfilmtage
Oberhausen, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, TENT Rotterdam, EMAF, Videonale,
Camden International Film Festival, Massachusetts, BFI London Film Festival, Images Festival, Toronto,
November Film Festival, London the Irish Film Institute, Project Arts Centre, EVA International, The
Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Whitechapel gallery and Tate Liverpool.
Her works are distributed by LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists'
moving image practices and the ideas that surround them.

This event is screening as part of aemi’s DISSOLUTIONS Festival at The Complex Dublin. Tickets are available for individual days Friday or Saturday (15 euro per day) or for the full weekend (25 euro).

DISSOLUTIONS is proudly supported by Screen Ireland and The Arts Council.


Images:

A gradient fills the frame, going from pink to beige. A caption appears at the bottom the image that reads: “Some things are too close to be shown.”

Shared Resources. 2021. Directed by Jordan Lord. Courtesy the filmmaker.

In a dimly lit room, a white woman with blonde hair covers her face with her hands. Her eyes appear to be closed tightly; it's unclear if she's laughing or crying. At the bottom of the screen, an open caption reads:

Shared Resources. 2021. Directed by Jordan Lord. Courtesy the filmmaker.

Three white people sit at a table together, each with a set of white papers in front of them. The figure on the far left is a bald man in his 60s, who reads the papers intently. The figure in the center is a person in their late 20s, who looks to a woman in her 60s with blonde hair, who holds the papers in her hands and looks back at them. A caption appears over the image that reads: “My mom looks at me, as I speak. My dad looks down at the contract.”

Shared Resources. 2021. Directed by Jordan Lord. Courtesy the filmmaker.

A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair covering one eye sits, looking down, wearing a polka-dotted raincoat. A hand-held mirror sets on a counter next to her, reflecting her hand and stacks of coins. A caption appears on top of her hands that reads “so I am counting coins and putting in envelopes.”

Shared Resources. 2021. Directed by Jordan Lord. Courtesy the filmmaker.



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