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Jordan Lord: Shared Resources
Thursday, October 2, 6:00 p.m. CT
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street
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Followed by a conversation with Jordan Lord and the scholar and curator Risa Puleo. Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank.
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Jordan Lord presents their acclaimed debut feature, a radical rethinking of debt, disability, and the ties that bind. Created with their parents, Shared Resources traces the family’s bankruptcy and personal hardships, while reflecting on indebtedness and interdependence of all kinds. With open captions and audio description, Lord extends this ethic to their audience, framing access not as accommodation but as a means of sharing experience, and inviting us to consider what it means to owe each other everything.
Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist working across video, text, and performance. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts, support, access, disability, and documentary. Solo exhibitions include Prophetic Memory at Artists Space (New York), The Voice of Democracy at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (Buffalo), and exhibitions at Piper Keys (London). Lord’s films have screened internationally at major festivals and arts venues, including The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (Brooklyn), Camden Art Centre (London), ARGOS Centre for Audiovisual Arts (Brussels), Artists Space (New York), DOC NYC (New York), DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (Prizren, Kosovo), Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (UK), Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Arkansas), New Orleans Film Festival, and San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, among others. Their debut feature, Shared Resources (2021), won the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media at the Camden International Film Festival, the Critics Jury Prize at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the New Cinema Award at the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, and a Special Jury Mention at the New Orleans Film Festival. Lord was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2021, and their work has been featured in publications including Screen Slate, Filmmaker Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic.
Bonded Debt: Kaegan Sparks on the Films of Jordan Lord
Kaegan Sparks | Artforum | June 9, 2020
Bonded Debt: Shared Resources
Carmine Grimaldi | Millennium Film Journal no. 75 | April 5, 2022
Listening in Crip Time: Access, Affect, and the Ethics of Audiovisual Description
Pooja Rangan | Film Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 2 | Winter 2022, p. 25–37
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Matt Turner | Nonlinearities (Substack) | August 15, 2021
Shared Resources
Alan Ng | Film Threat | July 7, 2021
Shared Resources
Emerson Goo | Screen Slate | December 7, 2021
Shared Resources Sensitively Frames Family Bonds and Collective Creativity
Grant Phipps | Tone Madison | April 14, 2021
Heard Everywhere but Here
Amy Ching-Yan Lam | Jordan Lord: The Voice of Democracy, Squeaky Wheel | November 10, 2023 – March 8, 2024
Chronicling Illness
Emily Watlington | Art in America | September 2, 2021
Shared Resources (Contractual Obligations)
Jordan Lord | MFA thesis, Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York | 2019
Prophetic Memory
Jordan Lord | Exhibition text for Artists Space | 2021
Jordan Lord in the Video Data Bank collection
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Conversations at the Edge Lecture Recordings
Conversation at the Edge video recordings (2016–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.