Shameless: The Art of Disability

Shameless: The ART of Disability
Directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein
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company
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
Country Canada
Language English

Shameless: The ART of Disability is a documentary film by Bonnie Sherr Klein about persons with disabilities. Produced in 2006 by the National Film Board of Canada, it is Klein's first film since a catastrophic stroke in 1987 left her a quadriplegic. The film explores disability culture and the transformational power art has for persons with disabilities.[1][2]

Klein is featured in the film, along with fellow artists with disabilities Catherine Frazee, a poet and writer; humourist David Roche; dancer and choreographer Geoff McMurchy; and writer and artist Persimmon Blackbridge. Vancouver musician Veda Hille contributed music for the film.[1][3][4]

Klein gathers these artists for a pyjama party where they explore Hollywood stereotypes of people with disabilities. The artists decide to meet a year later at Vancouver's Kickstart Festival with the intent of creating their own images of disability.[1][4]

The film is set mainly in British Columbia, in Vancouver, Roberts Creek and Hornby Island, with brief sequences in San Francisco and Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Klein, Bonnie Sherr (2006). "SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability". Collections. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  2. ↑ "SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability". Vancouver: DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  3. 1 2 Brymer, Lois (June 8, 2007). "Shameless: The ART of Disability". Canadian Materials. Manitoba Library Association. XIII (21).
  4. 1 2 Woolley, Pieta (May 18, 2006). "Shameless disability". Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 30 November 2009.


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