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[ecrea] Symposium Documentary and (Dis)Ability

Tue Sep 03 22:33:29 GMT 2013





Documentary and (Dis)Ability: A One Day Symposium at the University of Surrey: Friday 20th September 2013



All events will take place in the Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH. Information on how to get to the University, a map of the campus, where to eat, and guest rooms can be found at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/about/visitors/.

Please contact Helen Hughes on (h.hughes /at/ surrey.ac.uk) to register.

If you require accommodation please go to http://www.guildfordrooms.com/



Programme



10.00 – 10.30 Registration and Welcome



10.30 – 12.00 Panel 1: Creativity and (Dis)ability



Sapna Ramnani, The challenges of conducting on-camera interviews as spontaneously as possible when the interviewer has Cerebral Palsy and a speech impairment



Luke Pell and Jo Verent, Documentary, Disability and Dance: ‘Take Me to Bed’, a movement based examination of diversity, proximity and choice



12.00 – 2.00 Lunch (own arrangements)



2.00 – 3.30 Panel 2: Interpreting Documentary Embodiments



Hing Tsang, Ability and a productive notion of the hateful in Van der Keuken’s Herman Slobbe.



Catalin Brylla, Alternative Visions of Blindness: Embodied Space and the Everyday



Slava Greenberg, The Phenomenology of Animated Documentaries on Disability



3.30 – 4.00 Tea Break



4.00 – 5.00 Panel 3: The Documentary Legacy of Thalidomide



Martin Brady, Thalidomide as Spectacle



Anna Drum, Thomas Quasthoff and his (Dis)ability: An Analysis of the documentary film: Thomas Quasthoff – The Dreamer (Michael Harder, 2004)



5.00 - 6.00 Evening Meal (own arrangements)



6.00 – 8.30 Screening and Q & A with Adam Isenberg



Una Vida Sin Palabras (A Life without Words) Adam Isenberg (2011) http://www.alifewithoutwords.com/



Film Screening



A Life Without Words (2011)

Una vida sin palabras
Dir.: Adam Isenberg

WINNER - 2012 MARGARET MEAD FILMMAKER AWARD
36th Margaret Mead Film Festival. New York.

WINNER - PRIX DOCUMENTAIRE & PRIX LYCÉEN
24th Cinelatino International Film Festival. Toulouse, France.

SPECIAL MENTION - EMERGING INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER
Open City London Documentary Film Festival. London.

In rural Nicaragua, Dulce María (28) and her brother Francisco (22) are Deaf and know no language--spoken, written or signed--until Tomasa, a Deaf sign-language teacher working for a local NGO, arrives determined to teach them their first words.








Helen Hughes BA PhD

Programme Director: Film Studies

School of Arts

University of Surrey

Guildford GU2 7XH

Surrey, UK

01483 682837

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dft/people/helen_hughes/

http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/dft/research/currentprojects/surrey/









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