Compensation (2025)

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Compensation is a 1999 independent drama film produced, co-edited and directed by Zeinabu irene Davis and written by Marc Arthur Chéry. The film is about two parallel love stories set in turn-of-the-century and present-day Chicago, with both stories concerning a relationship between a deaf woman and a hearing man. The story is inspired by the 1906 poem of the same name from early African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar. The film stars Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks in the leading roles. The early part of the story is shot like a silent film. Though the film was not released until 1999, filming took place in 1993.

Production

The film was not initially conceived as a story featuring deaf performers until Davis saw actress Michelle A. Banks in a production of Waiting for Godot in Saint Paul, Minnesota and was impressed by her performance. Davis' husband, Marc Arthur Chéry, revised the script to make her and other characters deaf. Davis also cast deaf actors in other roles and hired deaf technicians for the film crew.

The entire film was shot in Chicago, Illinois to pay tribute to the director's previous residence and to expose audiences to the beauty of the city. Chicago locations included the Ephphatha Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Deaf, the Legler Branch of the Chicago Public Library, and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Filming took place from July to August 1993.

Reginald R. Robinson, a noted ragtime composer and performer, served as the film's period music score composer. Robinson incorporated the piano and mandolin into all his compositions for the film. Atiba Y. Jali, served as the contemporary music score composer. Jali combined traditional instruments like the drums and flute with less commonly used instruments such as the balafou, berimbau and yidaki.

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