OFF: SUNDAY 29 AUGUST
SESSION 17: 12PM FREE
FORUM: DIRECTING DEAF ACTORS
Clayton Jacobson, Ross Onley-Zerkel and the cast of I LOVE U explore the processes and surprising outcomes when hearing directors choose to cast and direct Deaf actors. This forum, which includes a screening of the film, will be of relevance to actors and directors with a keen interest in filmmaking, directing, acting and how to communicate your ideas to actors on set.
Clayton Jacobson is a prolific and popular Australian director (KENNY) and actor (ANIMAL KINGDOM).
Ross Onley-Zerkel is a community arts worker, hip hop dancer and an actor. Ross is Deaf and fluent in Auslan.
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SESSION 18: 2PM
WHITE BALANCE
Dorit Hakim, 2004, 45min, Drama, Israel
Twelve-year-old Itamar has a deep passion for ice-skating but he is slowly losing his hearing. He’s warned by his doctor and his parents to stay away from the ice rink. But Natalie, his new skating partner, is a wild and disobedient girl with other ideas.
ANNA’S SILENT STRUGGLE (ANNA’S STILLE STRIJD)
Tom Linszen, Willy Lindwer, 56min, Documentary, Netherlands
Concentration camps are characterized as places of horrible sounds; shouted commands, screaming, shooting and the cries of torture. For the Deaf, the terror was silent. As the Nazis methodically killed people with disabilities, Anna van Dam survived Auschwitz on her wits and her ability to lip-read.
Warning: Holocaust themes and images
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SESSION 19: 4PM
TAKE A LOOK (POPATRZ)
Adam Palenta, 2008, 4min, Documentary, Poland
Blind children explore a picture using their sense of touch and imagination. What they describe will surprise you.
SOUND-SHADOWS (LYDSKYGGER)
Julie Engaas, 2008, 7min, Documentary/Animation, Norway
“Many people think that I live in darkness, but before my eyes there is nothing; just air.” Enter a world where sound gives shape to space.
BLIND LOVES
Juraj Lehotsky, 2008, 77min, Docu-drama, Slovakia
Love can be soft, love can be silly and love can be blind. Four loves, four stories. Peter is a music teacher who escapes into his imagination. Miro is a Roma gypsy who loves Monika, but so do her parents. Elena and Laco are expecting a baby. Zuzka, meanwhile, is discovering first love on the internet.
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SESSION 20: 6PM
EYEBORG: THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE
Prepare to be astounded.
Rob Spence, winner of Time magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2009, will introduce you to the future of filmmaking. Rob is a Canadian director and cinematographer who lost the use of an eye in a shooting accident at the age of 15 and was later fitted with a prosthetic eye. Rob and the Eyeborg team have now solved the technology of fitting a miniature camera and transmitter into his prosthetic eye. Rob is currently shooting a documentary about how video and humanity intersect through surveillance.
The Other Film Festival is proud to present the World Premiere demonstration of the Eyeborg camera in operation. You will be filmed.
Warning: images of medical procedures.
