Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis | Post Screening Talk with Alison O'Daniel

A conversation with Zeinabu irene Davis and Alison O’Daniel on her feature film Compensation.
Zeinabu irene Davis’s debut feature film takes place across two parallel narratives set in Chicago at the beginning and end of the 20th century. Each tale is a love story between a Deaf woman and a hearing man and their navigations of not only the language barrier between American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken English but the racism, audism, and other obstacles in their lives. Using ASL as well as filmmaking devices from the silent film era, Compensation imagines an inventive approach to a bilingual film that makes visible the creative efforts and necessary work of accessibility, essential to meaningful communication. 1999, 16mm, b/w, US, in English with subtitles and American Sign Language, 95 min.
16mm collection print courtesy the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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