Film Accessibility: Opportunities for Inclusion, Creativity, and Outrageousness
Join us for a screening of films like you've never seen before--literally! We'll be showing cutting-edge disability shorts in a cutting-edge way. Learn what happens when audio description (narration of what's on screen for blind and visually-impaired people) is woven into the creative process from the start rather than slapped on as an afterthought.
Cathy Kudlick, PhD, former director of Superfest, the longest-running disability film festival in the world and visiting scholar and honorary doctor at Umeå University will be your tour guide at this event that will change how you think about disabled people and filmmaking.
The films are screened with English audio description.
Existing Patient
USA, 2023 (Aaron Abolt, 17 min)
A chronically ill woman fights to get her medication approved, encountering endless phone trees, unhelpful representatives, and stock photo families along her journey through healthcare bureaucracy.
Les Monstres (Little Monsters)
France, 2024 (Pablo Leridon,14 min)
Today, visually impaired teenager Erwan can't wait to get to school to declare his love for Agathe. Unfortunately, he first has to share a medical transport van with David, a wheelchair-bound suck-up, who tries everyday to make friends with Erwan, quite unsuccesfully. When David tries to make sure they never arrive, war is declared.
Audio Description
USA, 2024 (Luke J. Salewski, 5 min)
After making a wish on his birthday, a lonely visually impaired man finds his world turned upside down by an unexpected encounter.
Lobster
Australia, 2018 (Alison Myers, 6 min)
OK, so Cam's hungover, lost, vomit-stained, dealing with a very rude visitor, and totally in the dark. On the other hand, er, claw, she has an advantage that many Aussies can only dream about.
Song For Rent, After Jack Smith
United States, 2018 (Malic Amalya, 5 minutes)
Shot on 16mm film and with a loop of Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” in the background, in this adaptation of a 1969 film by Jack Smith, Barbarella Bush joins Rose Courtyard – a drag character based on Rose Kennedy - in a campy exploration of US hegemony, queer assimilation, and queer disruption.
Organized by DISTIME in collaboration with Humlab.
This event is made possible thanks to generous funding from Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond. Project: “DISTIME Ageing with disabilities inpast, present and future societies” (MAW 2019.0003)