JANUARY 29-31, 2010
MADCAP THEATRES
TEMPE, ARIZONA
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Hearing Images
HEARING IMAGES
(USA, 2009) Director: Matt Lauterbach
Documentary, English, 17 minutes, visual description
World Premiere
SYNOPSIS
Through brief portraits of three women—an audio describer, a “touch-tour” guide for the blind, and a visually impaired theater goer—Hearing Images illustrates how the performing arts can be made verbal and tactile for those in an audience who cannot see.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
"My interest in access services for the blind began when I took an audio-description workshop in 2006. I found it to be a fascinating and challenging fusion of poetry, stage directions, and perspective taking. I was not very good at it. This film is the result of my efforts to become a better describer myself, and to better understand the experience of people with visual impairments."
THE PRODUCTION TEAM
Director and Editor: Matt Lauterbach
Camera and Sound: Dinesh Sabu
Co-Producers: Dinesh Sabu and Matt Lauterbach
DVD Captioning and Audio Description: Matt Lauterbach
In collaboration with the Equity Alliance at Arizona State University, the Different From What? Film Festival has been made possible by seed grants from p.a.v.e., the arts entrepreneurship program of the ASU School of Theatre and Film and the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education.
Web Design by Lisa Tolentino.
Director: Matt Lauterbach