#deaftravel: Deaf Tourism in Bali is an ethnographic film that explores the experiences of deaf tourists who visited Bali as solo travelers, in pairs, or in groups, in the summer of 2018. The tourists originated from Europe, the USA, and India. They joined tours guided by two deaf tour guides, Wahyu and Gio, whose quite different […]
By: Erin Moriarty 20 March 2020 BALI, INDONESIA– From the vantage point of a drone, as seen in some videos circulating on social media, Bengkala appears to be a typical rural village in Indonesia. Faded reddish corrugated metal and orange tiled roofs emerge from a wash of vivid green, and in the distance, mountains loom, […]
Image: A visitor’s log book at one of the schools for the deaf in Bali listing visitors from England, Italy, the United States, Japan, and Indonesia. By Erin Moriarty Harrelson, 6 February 2019 Note: This blog was later developed into a journal article: “Sign to me, not the children”: Ideologies of language contamination at a […]
By: Erin Moriarty Harrelson 27 September 2018 What is the difference between deaf ethnographic filmmaking and producing documentaries for television and cinema? This question was raised during a filmmaking workshop hosted by MobileDeaf on 17-18 September 2018, attended by the filmmakers from Belgium and London we work with. As a part of its research and […]
By: Erin Moriarty Harrelson I have been in Indonesia for about four months now, familiarising myself with Bali, tourism in Bali in general, and the nature of deaf tourism here. This involved going on “ride-alongs” with deaf tourist groups, meeting with deaf tourists individually, as well as meeting with community leaders, tourist guides, and village […]
By Erin Moriarty Harrelson, August 2017 Last week, the MobileDeaf team organised its first reading/film discussion groups at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. These reading/discussion groups are built around themes (about 15 themes over 6 months) and last week’s theme was Ethnographic Filmmaking. Each of us will direct a full-length ethnographic film within the frame of […]