Invisible Machines

Overview

Bringing together histories of feminized labour with ethnographic scenes of stenographers captioning for d/Deaf students in the classroom, this experimental film considers how captioners and their clients make sense of demands for invisibility, neutrality, and access. Formally, by interrupting the normative coherence of sound and image, the film reflexively undermines the fluency of its own audio track to make palpable the nuanced interpretive work that goes into transcribing across modalities.