It’s a week since we screened Total Permission – our 30 minute feature to a full house at Watershed in Bristol. People packed the cinema keen to see the fruits of our labours in what turned out to be a very apt celebration for International Day of Disabled Persons. So many different perspectives and positions [...]
And today is International Day of Persons with Disability (not our choice of words, but we’re not arguing with the United Nations). As they say: Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, often face barriers to participation in all aspects of society. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical [...]
Claire Cunningham in her second 90 second PUSH ME film describes the moment when she first put a jacket on a pair of crutches and created a non-disabled boyfriend. Alongside footage of Claire’s inimitable choreography with crutches – solo and in duet – she muses on the hypocrisy of love from the point of view [...]
Relax back and watch 90 seconds of Ramesh Meyyappan pushing himself through the aches and pains of stunning aerial feats and in playful repose. ‘Fear’ isn’t a word in Ramesh Meyyappan’s vocabulary – but risk taking is. Here he describes his work on his Unlimited commission, Skewered Snails, and considers the impact that Deaf and [...]