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The Province of Milan, with the
support of the Banca del Monte di Lombardia Foundation,
promotes Cinema without Barriers, a programme
of films conceived for physically challenged viewers,
in particular the blind and the hard of hearing.
After an initial experimental phase, the project has
established itself as an ongoing, year-round programme
which represents a concrete effort to make culture
accessible to all.
Alongside with cinema projections every year a specific
topic merges into a seminar. The selected subject
is developed in order to find a moment in which is
possible to face new problems and to compare several
situations together.
Here you can find the Archive of past editions of
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17th
May 2007
"I Hear You with My
Eyes, I Talk to You with My Hands"
The seminar I Hear You with My
Eyes, I Talk to You with My Hands will allow
us to consider a number of relevant fields:
science (as alluded synesthetically in the seminar
title); the Sign Language; poetry; television;
music for the deaf and hard of hearing; experimental
approaches. It is surprising that one of the
speakers should refer to Beethoven, the great
German composer who in his later years became
deaf, but with no reduction in his sensitivity
– or his genius – as a result. His example is
an extreme but inspiring instance of human potential,
and of what we think too often merely as limitations.
We sincerely hope that the ideas
presented here will put forward valid research
tools for the world of work, too. Our objective
is to promote integration that is ever more
complete, but also and above all increasingly
self-aware.
Daniela
Benelli, Councillor
for Cultural Affairs, Cultures and Social Integration
Bruno Casati, Councillor
for Work
For
the complete program, the summary of speech
and speakers' curricula,
download the PDF file.
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18th February 2006
"The fifth sense: sensorial perceptions
between art and vision"
“If a blind regained his sight,
would he be able to recognise an object that
till that moment he had managed to identify
only by touching it?”
This question has been a mainstay
of philosophical debate for years, from Denis
Diderot to Oliver Sacks, and it has sparked
much research on perception, art and on different
skills. Different viewpoints will be debated
by a number of researchers and scholars who
have been analysing this issue for years - also
in the light of the possibilities offered by
the current, cutting edge technologies - as
well as by organizers of shows, museum exhibitions
and workshops, where sight is not used in the
artist’s experience and aesthetics. Artists
who have never considered their disability as
a “tragedy”, but as a starting point to discover
different ways of making artworks, will also
illustrate their practical experiences.
For
the complete program, the summary of speech
and the speakers' curricula,
download the PDF file.
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Volver,
directed by Almodòvar
Lady in the water,
directed by M.Night Shyamalan
The
Queen, directed by Stephen Frears
Nuovomondo,
directed by Emanuele Crialese
Little Miss Sunshine,
directed by Jonathan Dayton e Valerie Faris
Vero come la finzione,
directed by Marc Foster
Rosso come il cielo,
directed by Cristiano Bortone
Scrivimi una canzone,
directed by Marc Lawrence
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Le
notti bianche, directed
by Luchino Visconti,
La bestia nel cuore,
directed by Cristina
Comencini,
Il Giudizio universale,
directed by Vittorio
de Sica
La Diva Giulia,
directed by di Istvàn
Szabò,
La fabbrica del cioccolato,
directed by Tim Burton
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