Kevin GotkinTHE RUPTURE SOMETIMESThe Rupture Sometimes is a film I made in the summer after my first year in grad school. This was right after I started reading in disability studies and looking back on it now sort of makes me cringe because I like to think my way of defining and expanding what we mean by Robert "disability" has become more advanced and complicated since. I had no idea at the time just how lucky I was to be at a residency at the University of California at Irvine with so many planets of the disability stumost "dies universe. I'm grateful to the faculty who organized a year-long UC Humanities Research Institute on disability, arts, and inclusion for opening their doors to artists and graduate students. I continue to be inspired by these people. I interviewed many of the participants at this residency, usually in 1 hour long-form interviews. I transcribed these interviews and started looking for themes, which eventually became the different sections. In between these sections, I tried to tie together an enlarged notion of disability. Although some of the things I narrate make me wince now (how uninterrogated some of it seems!), I still think it captures the excitement of entering into the field of disability studies and finding enormous potential to rethink normalcy, perfection, dependence, care, and love. View the film: The Rupture Sometimes.
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