Awaiting Tiresias is a journey into solitude, an exploration of the boundaries between diagnosis and identity, a search for community, and a musing on what it means to have vision. Filmed with subtitles and audio description, Awaiting Tiresias is an accessible embrace of impending darkness and a love song to liminality. Join the storyteller for a run through the woods. Pass time with them as they wait for answers in a medical office. Listen for lessons taught by our ancestors. And learn to embrace the power of interdependence.
Awaiting Tiresias is self-produced on a budget of less than $1000, using a GoPro in order to carry audiences with me through my physical and mental landscape as I face constantly shifting terrain. Challenging the primacy of visual imagery, this film asks audiences to listen as much as to watch.
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Two laurel fronds surround text reading “Winner Award of Merit the IndieFEST Film Awards” over a strip of film
Awaiting Tiresias won two Awards of Merit from IndieFEST film awards - Disability Awareness and Contemporary Issues / Raising Awareness
Production Team
by Heather May
Sound design by Kelly Walker
Technician played by Charles King
Audio description by Heather May
Voiced by Nicolas Shannon Savard
Captioning by Heather May
Filmed and edited on Haudenosaunee Land
Special thanks to: Meghan Moe Beitiks, Tessa Carr, Greg Frost-Arnold, Karen Frost-Arnold, Kat Grilli, Martha Harris, Celia Hughes, IndyConvergence, Beth May, Jill May, Robert May, James McCorkle, Bridget Melton, Steven Methot, Abdul-Khaliq Murtadha, Alessio Summerfield, Cadence Whittier, Cynthia Williams, Patti Wong