her socialist smile (john gianvito, 2020)

beginning in 1913, when, at age 32, keller gave her first public talk before a general audience, her socialist smile is constructed of onscreen text taken from kellers speeches, impressionistic images of nature, and newly recorded voiceover by poet carolyn forché. the film is a rousing reminder that kellers undaunted activism for labor rights, pacifism, and womens suffrage was philosophically inseparable from her battles for the rights of the disabled.