Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/22/2018
1:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Harris Theater
Categories
Based on the method of audio description, “Blind Cinema” is an experience where the act of watching a film becomes a shared investment: a collaborative and imaginative act between seeing children and blinded adults.
In the darkness of a cinema space, the adult audience sits blindfolded. Behind each row of audience members is a row of children who in hushed voices describe a film only they can see. Accompanied by the film’s dialogue-free soundtrack, the whispered descriptions are a fragile, fragmentary, at times struggling, but courageous attempt by the children to make sense of what they see projected on the screen.
There will be three performances, the first starting at 1:00 p.m. Presented as part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, a program of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust that features exhibits and performances making their North American, United States or even World debut.
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