In "Able", Sandra Alland uses stop-motion photography and recorded voice to create
a metaphoric and literal vision of barriers to access. The text mixes poetry with
benefit applications, border control terminology, and medical and blood donor questionnaires.
Notions of disability, race, class, gender and sexuality intersect to ask the question:
"Who gets to be 'able'"?
Part of Tracey Moberly's Tweet-Me-Up 2012 at Tate Modern. Also screened at VIII Bienal
de Arte Contemporáneo (ONCE), Queer City Cinema (Regina) and Pussy Whipped (Edinburgh).
Featured in Feral Feminisms (Toronto) and as part of Sandra Alland's multimedia performances
in Ottawa, Toronto, Ste Catherines, Cobourg and Edinburgh.
Vimeo. “Able: A Film-Poem by Sandra Alland (2011, Subtitled),” August 16, 2013. https://vimeo.com/72506820.