Frame Shift: Accessible Arts - Audio Described

Frame Shift: Accessible Arts - Audio Described

Featuring ten original works which explore themes of intersectional identity, creative expression and social connectedness, Frame Shift amplifies the collaboration of filmmakers and artists with and without disability to disrupt narrative and forge new creative futures.

Films include a new commissioned work by installation and video artist Amanda Bennetts, as well as celebrated ArtScreen artists Sofya Gollan, Dani Pearce and Demon Derriere.

This collection of video artworks ranges from the haunting to the humorous, delving into the psychology of illness, reimagining genres, and pushing the boundaries of experimental film techniques.

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Frame Shift: Accessible Arts - Audio Described
  • Frame Shift: Amanda Bennetts - Carve Crevice from Grace (2024) Audio Described

    Carve Crevice from Grace is a short film by artist Amanda Bennetts, which examines the capitalist ethos surrounding productivity and the constructed notion of usefulness specifically for those who live with disability and chronic illness.
    In the film, Bennetts, who navigates life with multiple sc...

  • Frame Shift: Threshold (2023) Audio Described

    Threshold is an exploration of machines as part of the Deaf experience, how the acceptance of a cochlear implant is not an automatic, seamless entry to a world of sound. The film presents a radical imagining of silence as a restorative space, a place to draw strength from in facing the seeming ne...

  • Frame Shift: RADIAL (Bleach) (2022) Audio Described

    RADIAL is a collaborative film making process resulting in a portrait of a community in motion.
    Filmed using a circular camera track, RADIAL is an accessible model for working with either community or professional performers, created via a process of live improvisation.
    RADIAL can capture a conti...

  • Frame Shift: And the Ocean Agreed (2023) Audio Described

    78-year-old Vina is fading away in an aged care facility, her memories all but gone. The monotony of her existence is disrupted when her daughter and granddaughter take her on an outing to the ocean – a place she loved. Once submerged in the water, Vina's memories instantly return, along with a m...

  • Frame Shift:Blockhead and Sparkles and the Flood of Tears (2021) Audio Described

    Blockhead and Sparkles and the Flood of Tears is an animated short film created by acclaimed visual artist and disability advocate Digby Webster, experimental theatre maker Lauren Orrell and multi-hat filmmaker Rosie Lourde, where every asset has been hand drawn with oil pastels. Blockhead and Sp...

  • Frame Shift: FA[C]TS (2022) Audio Described

    Experience a visually exhilarating documentary that follows the journey of Demon Derriere, a passionate fat activist and fellow members of the fat community as they join forces with Dr. Naomi Koh Belic, a groundbreaking scientist. Together, they embark on a mission to challenge societal norms sur...

  • Frame Shift: Seven Deadly Sins (2020) Audio Described

    Seven Deadly Sins is a form of escapism for the viewer, as it was such an escape during the pandemic making it. Incorporating childlike forms and landscapes created from various materials that could be found while stuck in lockdown. The Sins symbolise society itself, each individual can relate t...

  • Frame Shift: The Democratic Set, Seoul (2023) Audio Described

    The Democratic Set, is a residency model for creating short films and performances, to explore the belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy social, political and economic rights and opportunities.
    The Democratic Set, uses a custom made film set, a neutral room with two opp...

  • Frame Shift: Voice Activated (2022) Audio Described

    A florist with a stutter is forced to cooperate with a voice activated car on the way to an important delivery.

  • Frame Shift: Places I Go (2022) Audio Described

    In an impressionistic tone poem, a young woman living with a chronic illness uses her imagination to escape the medical system.
    This film is a cathartic, emotional reimagining of Dani’s relationship with the medical system - one that is ongoing and cyclical.
    This film was written during her secon...