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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 61 min.) : digital, sound, color |
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Human-machine collaborations -- Should humans strive for perfection? -- If you were normal... -- Crawling is in -- Machine beauty -- Cognitive enhancement -- Transhumanism -- Priorities -- Homo fabricus/tool makers -- Histories of elimination -- Leaving the island of normal -- Another human experience |
| Summary |
There is a growing buzz around the potential for science and technology to create significant "human enhancement" applications, such as bionic limbs, improved memory or cognition, or the ability to choose specific characteristics for our offspring. The possibilities stir the imagination and excitement of many, while for others the rhetoric and current research into human enhancement signals alarms of a new eugenics. And yet, for most non-scientists, this sounds like the realm of science fiction, a world awash in mystery and misunderstanding. With cameo performances by some of the world's leading integrated dance companies, featuring disabled and non-disabled dancers and artists, including the Anjali Dance Company, Antoine Hunter (of Sins Invalid and Urban Jazz Dance Company), AXIS, Candoco, Dancing Wheels, GIMP, Kounterclockwise, Lisa Bufano, Marc Brew, Remix Dance Company, and Sue Austin/Freewheeling. Through a dynamic mix of verité, dance, archival and interview footage, Fixed challenges notions of normal, the body and what it means fundamentally to be human in the 21st century |
| Credits |
Camera, Duncan Kenworthy, Jamie LeJeune, Florencia Marchetti, Bruce Petschek ; editors, Regan Brashear, Josh Peterson ; original music by Chris Brierley |
| Performer |
Interviewees: disability studies scholar Dominika Bednarska; disability justice educator Patty Berne; exoskeleton test pilot Fernanda Castelo; bionics engineer Hugh Herr; NPR radio host John Hockenberry; biochemist and ability studies scholar Gregor Wolbring; robot scientist Rodney Brooks; futurist Jamais Cascio; bioethicist and policy advocate Marcy Darnovsky; brain-computer interface study participant Tim Hemmes; philosophy professor Cressida Heyes; transhumanist James Hughes; reproductive rights advocate Sujatha Jesudason; disability lawyer Silvia Yee |
| Event |
Originally produced in 2013 |
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Closed-captioned |
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In English with optional English captions |
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Official Selection - Docutah 2013: Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival; Official Selection - UNAFF 2013: International Documentary Film Festival |
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Rehabilitation technology.
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People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Technological innovations
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Biomedical engineering.
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Biotechnology.
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Genetic engineering.
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Self-help devices for people with disabilities.
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Medical innovations.
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Bioengineering.
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Disabled Persons -- rehabilitation
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Biomedical Engineering
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Genetic Enhancement
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Inventions
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Prostheses and Implants
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Self-Help Devices
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Biomedical Technology
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Biotechnology
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biomedical engineering.
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bioengineering.
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Bioengineering
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Biomedical engineering
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Biotechnology
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Genetic engineering
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Medical innovations
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People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Technological innovations
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Rehabilitation technology
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Self-help devices for people with disabilities
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Streaming video.
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documentary film.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Nonfiction films
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Internet videos
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Documentary films
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Brashear, Regan Pretlow, film producer, film director, editor of moving image work.
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LeJeune, Jamie, film producer, interviewee (expression)
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Hockenberry, John, interviewee (expression)
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Castelo, Fernanda, interviewee (expression)
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Herr, Hugh, interviewee (expression)
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Cascio, Jamais, interviewee (expression)
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Brooks, Rodney Allen, interviewee (expression)
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Wolbring, Gregor, interviewee (expression)
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Heyes, Cressida J., interviewee (expression)
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Berne, Patty, interviewee (expression)
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Hughes, James (James H.), interviewee (expression)
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Jesudason, Sujatha, interviewee (expression)
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Darnovsky, Marcy, interviewee (expression)
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Yee, Silvia, interviewee (expression)
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Bednarska, Dominika, interviewee (expression)
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Hemmes, Tim, interviewee (expression)
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Kenworthy, Duncan (Cinematographer), director of photography.
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Marchetti, Florencia, director of photography
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Petschek, Bruce, director of photography
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Peterson, Josh, 1969- editor of moving image work.
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Brierley, Chris (Musician), composer (expression)
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Making Change Media, production company.
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New Day Films, film distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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