Lived Perspectives presents Divergent Visions
Wednesday 15th October, 6-9PM
West Downs Centre, University of Winchester, Romsey Road
An evening of short films by Disabled and Neurodivergent filmmakers including discussion and Q&As with filmmakers and actors.
Screening
We will be screened all nine films from our Official Selection on the 15th October at the University of Winchester. There were chances to speak to some of the filmmakers, vote for the winner of the Audience Award, and even grab a pastry while mingling with the rest of our wonderful audience.
Keith
Steven Fraser
Best Film Winner
The ways people communicate and construct identities are explored in this stop-frame animated documentary.
One for the Road
Sarah Leigh
Deep in vampire country, an attempt to rescue a lost family threatens to descend into a feeding frenzy.
Our Circle in the Storm
Ray Jacobs
Sheltering from ever more extreme weather, the lives of a group of climate refugees is presented as a loving dance.
The Paper Bag
Roshi Nasehi and Al Orange
Special Mention
Animated recollections of an Iranian taxi ride thirty years ago featuring a youthful grandmother and a young man with a mysterious paper bag.
Picturing Inclusivity
John Schaffer
Special Mention
An autistic artist seeks nooks of social refuge amid overwhelming city spaces.
Radiotherapy
Debbie James, Corrianna Clarke and Jo Tyler
Experiences of radiotherapy retold as hallucinatory visions. We can’t wait to see it on the big screen!
Mashed
Emily Freer
Childhood struggles with a little known eating disorder are brought vividly to life.
Miss Odd
Robyn Wisker-Stilling
Audience Award Winner
Bursts of joyful escape clash with intrusive social disapproval for an autistic silent DJ.
s o f t e d g e s m a l l d a n c e
jiara sha
Best Student Film Winner
Fragments of medical reports dance, rebel and construct new narratives of human experience.