The short documentary “Holding Moses,” directed by Rivkah Beth Medow, both engages with and resists myths about disability. Watch here.
“Our desire for viewers to see Moses as a full-spectrum human with the capacity to feel both joy and pain guided our lens and the footage we included,” the director Rivkah Beth Medow said.
Randi Rader always wanted to have children. Moses was conceived the old-fashioned way: “The midwife came over and turkey-baster-style pushed some sperm into me, and I got pregnant the very first time,” Rader says. When Moses was born, he could barely move or cry, and for a long time he did not open his eyes. He was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that makes it difficult to walk and talk and often causes developmental delays.
We can’t hear from young Moses himself, but throughout the film we see him lovingly entangled in a nurturing network. “Our desire for viewers to see Moses as a full-spectrum human with the capacity to feel both joy and pain guided our lens and the footage we included,” Medow said. “It was critical for us to avoid using our lens to highlight the traumas around Moses’s care.
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