Time Slip
an award winning film made by members of the project and based on their heritage research
Winner
Our Story category in the 2013 Oska Bright International Film Competition
and the
Our Story Class SDSW Film Festival, Australia 2014
short listed for the Picture This Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
The heritage of disability and performance
As a response to our research we, as a group and as individuals, are examining the heritage of disability and its public face in two main areas that have suggested themselves in keeping with our project brief, firstly sport and subsequently film and the theatre. Both have at their core the element of performance and public display. We shall be looking at how things were and how things are, how disability is presented and how it is perceived and how attitudes have, or have not changed.
We have a great opportunity with the 2012 Paralympics and the current growth of drama, dance and performance in theatre featuring people with disability.
We have a great opportunity with the 2012 Paralympics and the current growth of drama, dance and performance in theatre featuring people with disability.
The Infant King - an example of a dramatic performance by people with disabilities that bypasses the need to learn lines and which focusses on acting