The Stiltwalkers
Entirely true stories of partially fake people
Jack McKenney is a Maine based documentarian and amputee who’s work deals with our societal (mis)conceptions and the often esoteric reasons for why we hold them. He has been studying the impacts of amputation since 2021, when he himself became an amputee.
The Stilt walkers
an Ekk production
Amputation happens hundreds of times a day in America, hundreds of thousands have been amputees for years and many hundreds of thousands more will one day lose a limb. So why, then, do we never hear about them? Why don’t we consider that a them could one day very easily be an Us?
There’s a simple answer: we are not shown amputees living normal lives. that’s not because it’s uncommon, but rather that it has been deemed uninteresting. An accountant living a normal life after losing his hand to cancer is not nearly as captivating as a veteran learning how to walk again, but even the veteran’s journey eventually leaves the realm of human interest story and settles into something far more banal, far harder to market.
However, daytime tv is not the end-all-be-all of what is worth documenting. the everyday able-bodied person deserves to have a reference to how they may have to live one day. and the everyday amputee deserves an exploration of the long term and structural impacts of amputation on their lives.
Disability is inevitable. it is that, or an early death.
Eins Kamera Kino produktionsfirma
translated as “one camera cinema productions”, Eins Kamera Kino (ekk) is a portland, maine based production studio focusing on documentary and experimental film.
Ekk owes its name, style and philosophy to the early film makers and pioneers of Berlin,
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