After...After...Access, Jordan Lord, 2018, 16:00
Through apartment buildings and hospital corridors, cameras follow the artist as they prepare for open heart surgery while voiceover reflects on showing, telling, and access. Open captions and audio description are integral to After…After…(Access)—its form and the questions the film poses about documentary. In some moments, the audio description, voiced by the artist, names what is occluded by the framing or focus, or expresses uncertainty about what is being shown onscreen. Even as After…After…(Access) points to the limits of representation, its layering of captions, audio description and camera footage taken by friends, family and the artist suggests the potential of our gathered partialities to make work that is both aware of its limits and prismatic.
*Warning: This film features a strobing light at the 8:14 mark, lasting approximately 50 seconds.
Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts, framing and support, access, and documentary. Their video and performance work has been shown internationally at venues including MoMA, Walker Art Center, Artists Space, Camden Arts Centre, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Performance Space NY. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys (London), Artists Space (NYC), and Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo, NY). They teach at Colorado College.