8 STORIES ABOUT MY HEARING LOSS – Kino Caisa: March Through the Frame

WOMEN’S STORIES THROUGH DOCUMENTARY CINEMA

Emotional, weird, too sensitive, too much… Women who don’t follow normative scripts often pay a price for not conforming.

MARCH THROUGH THE FRAME is a four-week programme of documentaries where these women are centred as narrators in their own right. Drawing on personal and community archives, each Tuesday we celebrate the joy and strength in our collective refusals and journeys of self-discovery.

Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural progressive hearing loss in the first grade, Charo Mato became fully deaf by the age of 23, and received cochlear implants against her parents’ wishes.

Structured with eight distinct stories and questions, 8 STORIES ABOUT MY HEARING LOSS flits between childhood stories and digressive memories, the scientific and medical explanations of hearing loss and implants, and poetic ruminations on the nature of life and language. Mato uses the film to process her own experience. A beautiful, highly personal film processing and celebrating the experiences of those with hearing loss.

English subtitles included. Duration 86 minutes.

The programme is curated by Adalmiina Erkkola, a cultural producer interested in the political potential of film. They also host the No Man’s Land radio show at IDA Helsinki.