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SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability - DVD/Sans honte : l'art d'être handicapé - DVD
Description
Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a
funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Director Bonnie
Sherr Klein (Not a Love Story, and Speaking Our Peace) has
been a pioneer of women’s cinema and an inspiration to a generation of
filmmakers around the world. SHAMELESS: the ART of Disability
marks Klein's return to a career interrupted by a catastrophic stroke in 1987.
Always the activist, she now turns the lens on the world of disability
culture, and ultimately, the transformative power of art.
Joining Klein are a group of artists with diverse (dis)abilities.
Humourist David Roche is taking his one man show, The Church of 80%
Sincerity, to New York’s off-Broadway. Poet and scholar Catherine Frazee
is navigating a jam-packed schedule of teaching and speaking engagements.
Dancer, choreographer and impresario Geoff McMurchy is organizing KickstART,
an international festival of disability art. Sculptor and writer Persimmon
Blackbridge is creating mixed media portraits from “meaningful junk”.
Klein gathers these artists for a pyjama party where they take a
subversive look at Hollywood stereotypes of people with disabilities: The
Monster, The Saint, The Psycho, the Poor Little Crippled Girl, etc. The
artists decide to turn the tables, making a pact to meet a year later at the
KicksART Festival with the intent of creating their own images of disability.
The film tracks this motley gang of five from the BC Gulf Islands, to
Nova Scotia and south to San Francisco while they create and then present
their multi-faceted self-representations. As we get to know each of these
remarkable people driven by a passion for art and transformation, the everyday
complexities and unexpected richness of life with a disability are exposed.
Packed with humour and raw energy, SHAMELESS: the ART of Disability
is a revelation of a film: honest, vulnerable and filled
The DVD includes the original English version of
the film and the English version with French
subtitles.
2009, 71 min 30 s
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