3000 OBSTÁCULOS
28´34´´ Documental. 2011
Idioma Original: castellano/euskera
Subtítulos: Sí Director: ION ETXEZARRETA ESPARZA
Guión: ion etxezarreta esparza
Música Original: ernesto amondarain
retrato coral en el día a día de personas con minusvalías físicas:naiara,luisi,javier,entre la denuncia social y el afán de superación..
BLINDNESS (2008) Fernando Meirelles
Blindness
Runtime: 121 mins
Directors: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga..
The film “explains a story full of moral dilemmas, more than the novel, where things are presented more in black and white. I tried to add more grays to the tale”, Meirelles explained, and he added that “this is a story that will raise tons of questions, but that doesn’t give concrete answers”. Mierelles
Review:
The catastrophe begins with a terrified Japanese businessman (Yusuke Iseya) who goes blind at the wheel of his luxury car, seeing only a milky whiteness, and passes his condition to an opportunist thief (Don McKellar) who is pretending to help him; the businessman is taken by his wife to an eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo) who is also treating a high-class prostitute (Alice Braga) who unwittingly passes the terrible plague to the barman (Gael García Bernal) at the hotel where she plies her trade – and so it goes on.
All these people, in this casual chain of human non-contact, are led like terrified animals into the sordid, hellish blindness camp: they neither knew nor much cared who they brushed up against in the teeming city, but now this sequence of indifference is transformed into a horribly important choreography of doom. The key fact is that one inmate, the doctor’s wife, played by Julianne Moore, can secretly see; she alone must bear the burden of observing how horrendous the world can become.
The world of the blindness camp is an unthinkable nightmare, but for all its horror and despair, it is not aimed at us with precisely the same realist stab as, say, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. As in the book, none of the characters is named and the occasional musing voiceover and comic interlude indicate that the proceedings are to be taken seriously, but somehow not entirely literally. When I first saw this, it reminded me of both George Romero’s zombie movies and Peter Shaffer’s stage-play Black Comedy; on a second viewing, this latter, absurdist quality predominates, although with a darker hue: the white blindness as black tragedy. Cinema is a visual medium, so no film version of Blindness could entirely reproduce its buried literary conceit of the “blind” reader having to imagine what the narrator is describing, and yet this film is an intelligent, tightly constructed, supremely confident adaptation.
*Interview- In the director´s chair (The Guardian)
The director of City of God and The Constant Gardener talks to Jason Solomons about his new film, Blindness, why he’s drawn to films where small characters battle huge problems, and working with his longtime director of photography César Charlone.
What do you think about the way blind people are treated in this film. Do you agree with the following commentaries?
Activists plan protest of movie ‘Blindness’
From BBC, AP/MSNBC:
The National Federation of the Blind has announced plans to stage protests against the movie “Blindness” at 75 theaters across the country when it opens this weekend.
The NFB says the movie, a Miramax Films release starring Julianne Moore, reinforces inaccurate stereotypes by portraying blind people as helpless, perpetually disoriented and unable to care for themselves.
“We face a 70 percent unemployment rate and other social problems because people don’t think we can do anything, and this movie is not going to help – at all,” said Christopher Danielsen, a spokesman for the NFB.
Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, the film depicts a mysterious epidemic that causes residents of a town to go blind, resulting in a collapse of the social order. Blind people are portrayed as quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves and trading sex for food.
“The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie,” said Marc Maurer, president of the NFB. “Blindness doesn’t turn decent people into monsters.”
BBC- Disable people demonstrate in Spain
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2 December 2012 Last updated at 18:14 GMT Help
Streets in the centre of the Spanish capital were closed off on Sunday as thousands marched in Madrid to protest against the effects of government cuts on people with disabilities.
Spain has seen regular protests and two general strikes this year, but this is the first mass protest against austerity measures by disabled people.
Link to disabled demonstration
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What do you think about this commentary once you have seen the video?
I am not against this video or ike but I do jus wanna say that ppl with downs and other disabilities rally to be treated fairly and like they are jus like everyone else and then exceptions like this are made…. mixed signal…. I think so. Either treat them like everyone else or treat them special. Either way go ike and to lakestevens good sportsmanship. I went to school in the area and they do have a fierce rivalry
Cadena SER “A VIVIR QUE SON DOS DÍAS” Radio programme about DISCAPACIDAD- DISABILITY
Listen to this interesting programme in Spanish
trailer of the film BLINDSIGHT
Interview to the director of Blindsight (Lucy Walker)
808pimpcess hace 3 meses
BERIK by the Danish director Daniel Borgman
Writer / Dir. Daniel Joseph Borgman / 16 mins / Denmark / 12 mins / Berik, a short drama about friendship and understanding, takes place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest and least popular of the kids in the apartment block, turns up on Berik’s doorstep looking for the local bully’s football, which he has lost./ Festivals: 2010 Winner of Grand Prix Canal +- Semaine de la Critique, Festival de Cannes, France, 2010 59th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia / www.nzfilm.co.nz / Sales Agent: NZ and Australia: NZ Film Juliette Veber
or visit: http://www.nzfilm.co.nz/FilmCatalogue…
Storyville -Notes on Blindness BBC Documentary
Based on Touching the Rock, John Hull’s account of his “experience of blindness
Touching the Rock, John Hull:
The ‘Dark, Paradoxical Gift’Oliver Sacks
The Miracle Worker
4 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOIrnq8f-y0
Whole film
