[Image Description: In a dimly lit room, a white woman with blonde hair covers her face with her hands. Her eyes appear to be closed tightly; it’s unclear if she’s laughing or crying. A caption at the bottom of the image reads: “laughter.”]
Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker’s own debt. Following their parents’ day-to-day lives and father’s progressing disability, the film uses open captions and visual descriptions to provide access to Blind and Deaf audiences and to reflect how their family sees themselves in the film. Meanwhile, as their parents and the filmmaker confront their very different understandings of debt and disability, the film asks what it means to owe each other everything.
