December 30, 2025Comments Off on Call for Deaf Participants: Paid ASL Video Project in San Diego
Lenois Productions is seeking Deaf participants for a paid ASL video project. The videos will provide clear ASL explanations for a mobile application designed to support Deaf users during the application process.
Who we’re looking for
Deaf participants
Ages 18 and up
Based in the San Diego area
Project details
Paid opportunity
1–2 days of work
Non-union project
If selected, you must be available during the first week of February
How to apply
Submit by January 5, 2026. Email your name and interest to: Lenoisprod@gmail.com
For Deaf people, a different struggle was unfolding…
Artist:Jon Savage
Medium:Video Art
Format:Hybrid Short Film (experimental, archival, narrated)
Duration:11:16 minutes
Year:2025
This 11-minute hybrid short film blends experimental video art, archival film, and narration to illuminate the overlooked struggles and resilience of Deaf communities in 1920s America. While mainstream history remembers Prohibition, jazz, and silent films, Deaf people faced forced oralism in schools, exclusion under the eugenics movement, and racial segregation that fractured community life.
Through archival references, abstract visual art, and narration, the film honors figures such as Granville Redmond, Nellie Zabel Willhite, Charles Krauel, and Blanche Wilkins Williams, while acknowledging the experiences of Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native Deaf people whose stories are too often erased.
The work also echoes George Veditz’s early call to preserve sign language on film—reminding us that moving pictures carry language across time. By weaving experimental imagery with historic memory, the piece reflects how Deaf communities sustained culture, preserved language, and grew new roots of identity in the face of erasure.
Artist: Jon Savage Medium: Video Art Installation Duration: 28 minutes Format: Dual-channel projection on two 120″ screens, bent at a 90-degree angle like an open book
Description
ASL Abstract Motion is an immersive video installation presented across two facing screens, creating the effect of an open book. The background: a single, uninterrupted freeway drive—symbolizing life’s continuous forward motion—shifting subtly between black & white and color.
Overlaid on this moving canvas are nine vivid sequences of abstract ASL gestures, presented in bold color and expressive form. Each gesture becomes its own visual rhythm—exploring ASL not as communication, but as visual poetry.
The experience is amplified by an original house music score, composed by Lenny Savage & Luke Civerella in direct response to the visual movement. The result is a dynamic dialogue between sound and sight, rhythm and identity.
Artist: Jon Savage Medium: Video Art Duration: 20 minutes Format: Single channel video with optional looping installation
Description
ASL Poetry Video Art is a 20 minute immersive video experience featuring 23 sequences of American Sign Language poetry layered with English poetic text, original visuals, and rhythmic pacing. Created by Deaf artist Jon Savage, this work invites viewers into a world where movement becomes meaning and language takes shape through the body.
Each segment explores a distinct emotional moment, ranging from joy to sorrow, resilience to vulnerability, unfolding as a visual tapestry of handshape, facial expression, and color. Rather than relying on voice or narration, the work centers the expressive clarity of ASL and its power to communicate directly through visual rhythm.
Designed to be experienced with or without sound, this piece is a meditation on identity, culture, and emotional fluency through Deaf eyes.
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