Closed captions aren’t doing a good enough job, says deaf artist

Christine Sun Kim, a deaf American artist living in Berlin, has produced a short film highlighting the shortcomings of closed captioning. And she offers some solutions. Though her suggestions may be just a little too poetic for the average viewer.

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