A friend sent me a link to this movie even knowing that I don't usually watch things, and I started watching it knowing that 40 minutes is longer than I'm usually willing to sit through videos. I watched the entire thing, crying the whole time at the loving way these people go about their work. The Last Repair Shop.
Probably everyone else has already seen it since it won the Oscar for best documentary short for the 2024 Academy Awards, but just in case you haven't, it is well worth 40 minutes of your life and a lot of tears at the sheer kindness of the people in it.
My cousin sent me a link to Tarta Relena: Tiny Desk x globalFEST 2024 right when I was busy putting a complicated score into MuseScore and didn't have time to stop and listen to anything - but these two women singing together in harmony in several languages is exactly my kind of music and I watched the whole 20 minutes.
I also recently watched all 14 minutes of Examined Life - Judith Butler talks with Sunaura Taylor, as recommended by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jesse_the_k. I watched it for their discussion of the social model of disability (with bonus thrifting), for glimpses of San Francisco, and for celebrating a disabled person belonging out for a walk and buying a sweater. I didn't know San Francisco is (one of) the most accessible cities in the world. I moved here as a young adult and took the curb cuts, etc. as the right and proper way for a city to be.
Additional links in comments, thanksjesse_the_k!
Smithsonian article on the history of activism for curb cuts by disabled folks by Julie Peterson.
Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot on Their Short Documentary ‘The Last Repair Shop’ by Valentina Valentini
Probably everyone else has already seen it since it won the Oscar for best documentary short for the 2024 Academy Awards, but just in case you haven't, it is well worth 40 minutes of your life and a lot of tears at the sheer kindness of the people in it.
My cousin sent me a link to Tarta Relena: Tiny Desk x globalFEST 2024 right when I was busy putting a complicated score into MuseScore and didn't have time to stop and listen to anything - but these two women singing together in harmony in several languages is exactly my kind of music and I watched the whole 20 minutes.
I also recently watched all 14 minutes of Examined Life - Judith Butler talks with Sunaura Taylor, as recommended by
jesse_the_k. I watched it for their discussion of the social model of disability (with bonus thrifting), for glimpses of San Francisco, and for celebrating a disabled person belonging out for a walk and buying a sweater. I didn't know San Francisco is (one of) the most accessible cities in the world. I moved here as a young adult and took the curb cuts, etc. as the right and proper way for a city to be.Additional links in comments, thanks
jesse_the_k!Smithsonian article on the history of activism for curb cuts by disabled folks by Julie Peterson.
Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot on Their Short Documentary ‘The Last Repair Shop’ by Valentina Valentini
