[Video Description: Part 3 of 3 of the Director’s Cut of David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder’s documentary Vital Signs, Crip Culture Talks Back, available on YouTube. The footage for the documentary was shot at the University of Michigan’s 1995 conference on disability and the performing arts, This/Ability. Part 2 includes interviews with disabled studies scholars, artists, poets, authors as well as performances and discussions.]
Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back, Part Three (copyright 1995, Fanlight Productions, now on YouTube) by David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
Part three (10 minutes, 17 seconds) of a documentary, closed captioning included
Documentary Description: “During a conference on disability and the arts interviews and performance art routines were recorded in the video, “Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back.” The documentary captures the emergence of disability culture – the active sharing of community, politics, and critiques of academics, artists, activists, and other disabled people.” - David Mitchell
“This edgy, raw documentary explores the politics of disability through the performances, debates and late-night conversations of activists at a national conference on Disability & the Arts. Including interviews with well known disability rights advocates such as Cheryl Marie Wade, Mary Duffy and Harlan Hahn, Vital Signs conveys the intensity, variety and vitality of disability culture today. Open-Captioned. Contains strong language and nudity.” -Fanlight Productions
Filmed at the University of Michigan’s conference on disability and the performing arts, This/Ability: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability and the Arts, on May 18-20, 1995
Related Links: Talking About Talking Back: Afterthoughts on the Making of the Disability Documentary Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
University [of Michigan] Record, May 8, 1995 by Joanne Nesbit