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Marriage Between the Deaf and the Hearing
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Taiwan
/ 1997 / Color / Video (Hi8, mini DV) / 18 min
Director: Chen Mei-lin
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Chen
Mei-lin
Works as a computer programmer at a TV station. She became deaf after
being given an inappropriate fever medication as a child. In 1997,
she attended the Visual Media Training Workshop for Deaf People, conducted
by Full Shot and commissioned by the Association of Deaf People.
A Marriage between the Deaf and the Hearing is her first work.
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A young deaf man marries a hearing woman, but the couple has trouble
communicating with people around them. The man's younger sister, Chen
Mei-lin, who is deaf, filmed the marriage of her brother and his wife
for this piece.
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