With its fragmentary imagery, amateurish charm and balanced use of close-ups, Stephen Dwoskin has provided 'Behindert' with a film language that is both curious and close to the body, quivering between warm ecstasy and cold sobriety, documentary home video and staged fiction. 'Behindert' is not only a unique representation of a love relationship seen from a disability perspective but also a work that destabilizes the dominant film historical representation of human intimacy; a film imbued with a deep fascination with the face's subtle grimacing and the body's subtle reaction patterns.

The film is introduced by the renowned American architecture theorist David Gissen; it is the third chapter in the film series 'Disabled Lives, Disabling Forms', which examines the intersection between disability, film and architecture.

Behindert / Stephen Dwoskin / 1971 / United States / English with English subtitles / 96'
Crip time / Carolyn Lazard / 2018 / United States / English with English subtitles / 10’
Hand Model / Michelle Miles / 2019 / United States / English with English subtitles / 2’

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'Disabled Lives, Disabling Forms' Film Program

A two-day program of experimental documentary films – all created by filmmakers, representing their experiences of impairment. In addition to documenting disability at home and within urban spaces, these works also disable the aesthetic character of film by challenging the conventional relationships between imagery, sound, and point of view in an effort to capture the sentiment of impairment.
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01.06: 'Blue' with introductory lecture by David Gissen

19.15-21.15
Cinemateket
100 kr / 70 kr

Blue / Derek Jarman / 1993 /  United Kingdom / English with English subtitles / 75’
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01.06: 'I Didn't See You There' with introductory lecture by David Gissen

21.15-22.45
Cinemateket
100 kr / 70 kr

I Didn't See You There / Reid Davenport / 2022 / United States / English with English subtitles / 76’
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02.06: 'Behindert', 'Crip Time', and 'Hand Model' with introductory lecture by David Gissen

16.30-18.30
Cinemateket
100 kr / 70 kr

Behindert / Stephen Dwoskin / 1971 / United States / English with English subtitles / 96'
Crip time / Carolyn Lazard / 2018 / United States / English with English subtitles / 10’
Hand Model / Michelle Miles / 2019 / United States / English with English subtitles /  2’

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