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Set in a hospital, this four-minute clip brings us into the lives of patients, their families and healthcare workers. It shows a short description hovering near each person, saying what he or she is feeling or going through. In this way, it makes the invisible, visible.
This is a sharing by a doctor in Singapore who went through a transformation after he was diagnosed with cancer. He shares with such honesty, the material life he lived and how, after cancer, he became more compassionate.
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Kieslowski's short 1980 film documentary 'Talking Heads', made for Polish state TV, takes people from all backgrounds and all ages (from one to one hundred years old) and simply asks them two things:
Who are you?
What do you want?
This 25 minute film was created by a young teenager who has disabilities. Reuben uses a communication device to be understood. In this film he interviews many people who speak various languages. Reuben shows how communication is a universal issue and not a disability related issue.
A young man wheeled around the streets of an average small town in New England. He shows the condition of the sidewalks and why it is often necessary for people who use wheelchairs to wheel on the roads rather than on seemingly perfectly good sidewalks.
A young man wheeled through a downtown shopping area to evaluate wheelchair accessibility in this small New England town. What he found is no different from what most people who use wheelchairs deal with in their own towns and cities.