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Shared Resources. 2021. Directed by Jordan Lord. Courtesy the filmmaker. Image description: Three white people sit at a table together, each with a set of white papers in front of them. The figure on the far left is a bald man in his 60s, who reads the papers intently. The figure in the center is a person in their late 20s, who looks to a woman in her 60s with blonde hair, who holds the papers in her hands and looks back at them. A caption appears over the image that reads: “My mom looks at me, as I speak. My dad looks down at the contract.”

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Shared Resources. 2021. USA. Directed by Jordan Lord. World premiere. 98 min.

Artist, filmmaker, and writer Jordan Lord has filmed their parents over the past five years—the term of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy precipitated by Lord’s father losing his job as a debt collector. Shared Resources embeds their story of trial and resilience negotiating a system predicated on self-reliance in a broader reflection on forms of debt and interdependence in family life and art-making. Between holidays and domestic scenes in the Lords’ Mississippi home, the filmmaker’s parents react to edited footage and negotiate their own representation. Lord finds parallels in contractual norms across debt management and documentary filmmaking, abandoning the latter in search of enduring, dedicated models of consent and collaboration. Multiple viewpoints are expressed through audio descriptions and open captions, making access a constituent element of the film and interrupting the primacy of any one form of spectatorship. Poignant but also wonderfully tender and humorous, Lord’s work asks what it truly means to be bonded with another person—and to owe each other everything.

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This film accompanies Doc Fortnight 2021: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.
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