Carolyn Lazard
2021A Recipe for Disaster
Carolyn Lazard
Carolyn Lazard’s A Recipe for Disaster uses the first program shown with captions on US television in 1972—Julia Child's The French Chef—to compose a wider study on the terms of media accessibility. The video’s compelling spoken/written manifesto-like text (and deadpan audio description) counter-narrates the original broadcast and casts a profound critique of inclusion as add-on or afterthought.
A Recipe for Disaster
Get Well Soon
Carolyn Lazard
Carolyn Lazard
Get Well Soon is constructed and cinematic but still deals with personal experience via self-portraiture (sometimes via selfie stick). Lazard shows the experience of chronic pain—and the grotesque pitfalls of navigating the health care bureaucracy—through the metaphor of a first-person role- playing game.
Get Well Soon
Consensual Healing
Carolyn Lazard
A conversation between a therapist and their client unfolds as a yellow ball swings back and forth. Replicating simple animations of online EMOR videos used to treat PTSD, the film feeds Octavia Butler's short story 'Bloodchild' through scripted therapeutic protocols, destabilising relations between coercion and consent, form and content, trauma and fiction.
Consensual Healing
