This film is called 'What’s Left'.
Here the artists have reimagined four short scenes from the American children’s TV show 'Sesame Street'. It features the character Lefty the Salesman who was known for selling letters of the alphabet in a suspicious way to a character called Ernie.
Over four scenes Lefty, played by Kim, tries to sell a series of items to Ernie, who is played by Mader, including an invisible ice cream cone, some air, a notebook and an empty box.
Kim is dressed in a trench coat and a black hat and has a painted purple nose. Mader is in a black beanie hat and a stripy jumper and his nose is painted red. The lower halves of their bodies are hidden by a brick wall, which adds to the puppet show feel. It is filmed against a strong blue background that adds to the children’s TV aesthetic.
'Sesame Street' was launched in 1969 and was the first mainstream TV show to incorporate sign language, and bring it into millions of homes worldwide.
Linda Bove, a Deaf actress and one of the original cast members of 'Sesame Street', appears in 'What’s Left' as a celebrity cameo. Linda introduces each scene in the film and greets people in American Sign Language.
Kim and Mader themselves are not using American Sign Language, they set themselves the acting challenge of not using signs, just to use body language and facial expressions. This stems from the idea that when people are under threat or in hiding they rely more on hand gestures and body language.
The dialogue is conveyed through the subtitles.
The film refers to the absurdity of a language being judged as illegal, and how sign language communities had to exist underground following the Milan Conference.
To the right of this stop there is a set of headphones on the wall where a scene by scene audio description of the film can be heard.
Please follow the tactile line to the next stop to reach the bench in front of the film.