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Resistance Meditation

Wylie posits disability as ’crip time’: a site of resistance to capitalism.

Director
Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2024

Language

English

18+
5 min
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Credits & Director

Screenwriter

Sara Wylie

Cinematography

Sara Wylie

Original Music

Keith Smith

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Sara Wylie

Sara Wylie (she/they) is a filmmaker, producer, and researcher from the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (aka Vancouver). Her work focuses on archives and counter-archives, radical histories, embodied methodologies, disabled ecologies, and crip intimacies.

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