Generation: Cold Open release date: March 20!
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Generation: Cold Open is an intimate study of communication using contemporary podcasts interpreted into American Sign Language, with ASL commentary interpreted into English.
- GENERATION: refers to the Chinese Zodiac completion of a full cycle of life (at age 60) and entering a new lifecycle with vigor, possibly including earned wisdom from lived experience.
- COLD OPEN: implies comedy, suggesting humor—watch for it!—and continuity. Also, note multiple meanings of the phrase, “stand up,” inviting consideration of the significance of interpreting.
Available starting March 20, 2025 through Vimeo On Demand.
$13 / 30 days
The trailer, the full-length video (31 minutes), and all four shortie trailers feature American Sign Language with English audio and captions. The podcasts are interspersed with narrative (i.e., stand-ups). Four of five of the sampled podcasts are featured in the trailers:
- On Being with Krista Tippett, in which Krista discusses the experience of awe with psychology researcher and professor Dacher Keltner.
- Structures of Interaction, the episode titled “National Insecurity“, in which Michael J. DeLuca describes his expectations about the concept and capabilities of the search engine when it was first introduced to him, within the context of a discussion about classified information and whistleblowing.
- Have a Nice Future from Wired, the episode titled “Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse”, in which ‘therapist of the future’ Noah Radford talks about preparing his kids (and all of us) for the potential of becoming refugees at one or more points during our lifetimes.
- On Being with Krista Tippett, a conversation between Krista and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson, talking about how things created by human beings — such as the caste system and its tools (e.g., racism, monetary status) — can also be dismantled by human beings.