A&E Accessibility and Environment Podcast

How can a person suffering from Alzheimer's still tell their own life? 

A_biography recollects through drawn animation, point by point, the emergence of a memory exactly where it seems lost - remembering: the possibility of being at a "point of view". This process takes place in a gliding state of constant transformation on the surface of a now closed body of memory.

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Alexander’s Schellow pedagogical practice has taken him to universities, among others, in London, Paris, Tirana, Singapore, Mexico City and Brussels, where he founded AnimLAB and since 2013 holds a professorship in animation, heading an MA of more than human practices at the erg - école de recherche graphique.

His research originates in an interest for methods of memory (re)construction, which he developed and pursued in daily drawing and animation practice. 

The hybrid processes materialize into projects that have been shown widely internationally, most recently at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. In addition, collaborations in recent years have focused in particular on the creation of specific archives (e.g. Colonial Family Films, Belgium) or on interfaces of human/digital (re)cognition, especially in the field of current deep learning developments.

Traveling Light, is a short dance film celebrating performers with disabilities, revealing the language of movement as a profound form of communication. The film explores human connections and community as well as our inevitable link to nature.

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In "Traveling Light," three out of five actors are neurodivergent. These performers with disabilities play a dual role as actors and collaborators in shaping the choreography, which serves as the core expression in the screen dance film. This choreography highlights their inherent body movements, showcasing the beauty of diversity and our distinct ways of moving

Alexis Karl is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker creating films and cinematic installations for the U.S. State Department, Public film projections on the Manhattan Bridge with Leo Kuelbs Collection, and gallery installations of her hand-constructed, large scale film sets.

Karl teaches cinematography and film directing for the U.S. State Department in Thailand and Gaza, Palestine, and is a professor of installation and multidisciplinary art and cinematic installation at Pratt Institute in New York City. She is a regular lecturer for the U.S. embassy, The Metropolitan Museum, and National Arts Club on the relevance of film, fashion and fine arts on modern and historical artistic culture

Her films and live musical performances have been featured in festivals and exhibitions around the world, most notably the Whitney Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Stephen Romano Gallery, The Museum of Moving Image with Kaufman Center and The Morbid Anatomy Museum.

Karl’s films have won acclaim at festivals internationally and nationally. Karls’ film and multidisciplinary work have been featured in New York Times: Women in The World, NY Post, Elysian Magazine, White Hot Magazine, Gothic Beauty Magazine, Heathen Harvest, Honeysuckle Magazine, London Financial Times, Atlas Obscura, Bustle Magazine; with TV and Radio spots on Salford City Radio UK, WMBR Bat’s In The Belfry Radio Boston, CNN and The View.

Nich L. Perez is a Filipino-American filmmaker, educator, and collaborator. He creates film grain and pixels through personal human connections, carving narratives with the lens of empathy and community. 

As the founder and director of the Nonprofit Film Collective (nonprofitfilm.org), a grassroots group of storytellers, “Nick” transcends traditional boundaries by collaborating with nonprofits, communities, students, and institutions to tell meaningful stories with tangible, real-world, positive impacts.

‘Letters to Eleanore’ is a poignant feature-length documentary about disability and social inclusion, highlighting the stories of children with cerebral palsy and their families.

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Mark Krol was born in Stavropol in Russian Federation in 1990. “Invisible Life" is his debut feature-length documentary following 5 visually impaired people, (3 of them completely blind), around their daily lives. The youngest of the characters, Sasha Leshov passes away 2 months after starting the filming. The film is dedicated to his memory. His story serves as a poignant reminder of the fragility and resilience of the human spirit.

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Pripyat Horse is a splinter from a much bigger project. The live footage was shot in Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 2009.

Sally Pearce made this short piece to express grief for her editor and friend Marianne Kuopanportti Fennell who died in December 2020. The grieving extends out from the very personal to the global. Through this film she also grieves for the earth at a time of climate change and accelerating species extinction.

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Pripyat Horse is freely available online now:  ⁠https://vimeo.com/799558528⁠

Professor and Para-athlete Rodrigo de Oliveira Garcia is the writer, co-director and subject of the documentary’ In the sea’.

The film shows Rodrigo traveling to swim for 8km in Rio de Janeiro. He narrates the sensations of spending hours alone in the sea, unveiling issues such as the autonomy of the use of his body, the ableist discourse of overcoming, and racial inequality in his country.

This conversation touches on many aspects of disability issues and environmental access, as well as citizenship handled as a commodity through different cultures and economic systems, opposite indigenous peoples and and their relation with their lands, nature and self. Rodrigo speaks about his unique heritage, his social class and his take on disability culture and the global burning issues as COP30 comes to one more unresolved ending.

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You can reach him at:

[email protected]

Instagram: @rodrigo7garcia

Renee discusses her film Tiger (72000 BC - 2059 AC), the motivation behind it and what is next for her as a young activist filmmaker.

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Max Endersby talks about his film The A Files. The A Files explores the experience of coming to terms with autism, told through a story of mystery, a mad scientists and meeting your clone.

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Aislinn Evans talks about her work Bring Me My Chariot of Fire!

Aislinn is a site-responsive artist looking at the urban and industrial sites she calls home. She talks about the inspirations and ideas behind the work and her experience as a young, neurodivergent artist living in London.

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Coming up:

ROAD MOVIE is a new multi-media exhibition at Eastbury Manor House, Barking & Dagenham. ROAD MOVIE uses expanded cinema - slides, sound, stills, video - to rethink the road, using disorientation to change how we feel about the space around us. At the opening there'll be a chat with the artist Aislinn Evans, food, sound people, and an exclusive first look at  the exhibition!

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1258213132349?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Writer and producer Maddi Crease, Director Aaron Shrimpton, Sound designer Steve Pretty, and choreographer  Hollie Dee, discuss their film Autistic Joy.

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Autistic Joy is a micro short poetry film exploring the side of autism that often goes unspoken and under-explored: the joyful. From happy stimming to sensory delight, Autistic Joy delivers an insight into the positives within our autistic experience.

http://maddicrease.com