For the second year in a row, SADC produced the audio description that was provided to all of the finalists of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, a program feature starting last year. As before, no specific information about any of this years fifteen finalist short films was provided to SADC prior to our receiving them,… Continue reading 2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
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Neon as Soulcraft & RugLife @SFMCD
SADC recently produced the audio tours for two more recent exhibitions at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design: RugLife, which is showing currently through April 20, and Neon as Soulcraft, which ran through November last year. Biographical and other curatorial text were provided by the museum and incorporated into the tours. Wayfinding and description… Continue reading Neon as Soulcraft & RugLife @SFMCD
The Last Jews of Guantánamo
Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo (The Last Jews of Guantánamo) provides a glimpse of a tiny community at a unique moment for Jews in Cuba. In the city of Guantánamo, following the liberalization of Cuban policies against religion, two women in their 80s are finally to be bat mitzvah; to ritually proclaim their faith and… Continue reading The Last Jews of Guantánamo
Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)
Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1) is a collaborative art installation by Carmen and Antonio Papalia, which stood on view at the Migros museum in Zurich, Switzerland, October 2023 through January 2024 for their Interdependencies exhibition. View and listen to the description SADC produced for the photos and the videos of the piece. Photos: Writer Cheryl… Continue reading Tripping Hazard (Field Studio 1)
2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
Here’s SADC receiving thanks from master of ceremonies Nic Novicki at the award ceremony. The SADC provided audio description for 15 of the 16 finalists for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, now in its 11th year. (The winner for Best Film, entitled Audio Description, had AD already supplied and central to its story.) The films… Continue reading 2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
NOVA Victim Advocacy Town Hall
SADC produced AD in English and Spanish for video documentation of the inaugural town hall meeting of the NOVA Victim Advocacy Corps at the University of New Mexico in April 2023. AD written and Audio Edited by Kensuke Nakamura. Spanish translation, Blind QC and Narration by Project Lead Nefertiti Matos Olivares.
Going Dark @ the Guggenheim
SADC wrote and produced description for the Guggenheim Museum exhibition Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, which runs October 20, 2023 through April 7, 2024 in New York. The Guggenheim has made the audio also available on-demand on the Going Dark page of their website, and made Going Dark the focus… Continue reading Going Dark @ the Guggenheim