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Movies, film, cinema, narratives, features, shorts, documentaries, dramas, comedy, erotica or experimental celluloid, digital or animated video projects which challenge, subvert and stretch the imagination of the viewer.
Movie lovers, film makers, rabble rousers, conversationalists, creative, artsy types.
This guy ...
Soundtracks, mostly. Music featured on the OUCH! Podcast or Proud, Angry and Strong, 4 Wheel City, DJ $hortness, Johhny Cresendo, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Raul Midon, Jessica Callahan.
North Face, Urban Myth, Aaltra, Sixth Happiness, How's Your News?, Born Freak, F*ck The Disabled, The Cost of Living
Tod Browning's Freaks, Killer Cure, Everytime You Look At Me, Whole: A Trinity of Being, One Night Sit, Shameless: The Art of Disability, Dance Me to My Song, The Waterdance, Zatoichi, Fighting Life, Acción Mutante, The Amazing Mr. No Legs ... Anything directed by Liz Crow or Shelley Barry, featuring Mat Fraser, produced by Ewan Marshall or written by Lizzie Mickery.
Anything by the stellar folks at ConnecTV or "Shoot Your Mouth Off" Productions, Jamie O'Leary's I'm Spazticus, I'm With Stupid, South Park (especially the episodes with Timmy and Jimmy) and, on those days when I'm feeling nostalgic, reruns of "Ironsides."
Screening Disability, Cinema of Isolation, Beyond Villains & Victims, Bodies In Commotion: Disability & Performance, Disability & Contemporary Performance: Bodies On Edge, FRAMED: Interrogating Disability In The Media.Anything By David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, Paul Longmore, Harriet Johnson-McBryde, Mary Johnson, Tom Shakespeare and, of course, Simi Linton.