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<p style="unicode-bidi:embed;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">While deaf filmmaking as a profession has grown exponentially in the previous two decades, deaf ethnographic
filmmaking led by deaf researchers and rooted in long-term anthropological fieldwork is new.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">Most
existing ethnographic films involving deaf people are made by hearing filmmakers (</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span data-markjs="true" class="mark10awqsydt" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">of</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">ten
showing some presumption about deaf people and</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="mark10awqsydt" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">of</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">ten
relying on, or involving, narrators and interpreters). In this</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="mark55m5usxmf" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">presentation</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">we
reflect on deaf ethnographic filmmaking as an inherently collaborative and polyphonic process. </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;"> A</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">s
a part</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="mark10awqsydt" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">of</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">its
research and dissemination, the European Research Council-funded (2017-2023)</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">MobileDeaf</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">research
team is producing ethnographic films focusing on international deaf mobilities <span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
(https://</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmobiledeaf.org.uk%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ca.pfister%40unf.edu%7Cf71b7da82b10422a381908da12565e0c%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637842459420812849%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=3mgPdTmaZj7Bb5bBmJx2%2F7jVt19V1IJXBqdM%2B9UqAHc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" shash="HpBdyfcCCp7WUsZmXgqvrHQ6ShVmCYTdWoyLMFWA1VnvmE9RIdj+7V+tMfjKzHCfujrYu+VjlW8mmZ8Mrp/xEWKG0/wPDkNGu1/2ORgoNfYHFHPWee003xSft3ZCGAOXprB2eD5WfItag2VMA6A0fgSZGyzthSHC1VpGD/MeoAE=" title="Original URL: http://mobiledeaf.org.uk/. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif">mobiledeaf.org.uk</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">)</span>.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></p>
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<p style="unicode-bidi:embed;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">The researchers, their research assistants, the film editors and the camera crew involved in the project
are deaf signers from various countries, leading to a unique moment where the precepts</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="mark10awqsydt" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">of</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">deaf
ethnographic filmmaking are emerging in a multilingual and transnational context. The use</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="mark10awqsydt" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">of</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">International
Sign, itself a context-based collaborative multilingual phenomenon, is instrumental in the</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">MobileDeaf</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; color: black;">filmmaking
processes. The encounters between deaf protagonists, researchers and filmmakers with diverse privileges and lack thereof resulted in approaches to ethnographic filmmaking that explore but also critically interrogate deaf cosmopolitanism. </span></p>
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Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work<br>
University of North Florida<br>
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