Description
| Summary: | What does it mean to be disabled and desirable? In Picture This, a new documentary by Jari Osborne, we meet Andrew Gurza, a self-described "queer cripple" who has made it his mission to make sex and disability part of the public discourse. Andrew embraces his role as a poster boy for the cause with an honesty that is, in itself, a kind of striptease. We follow Andrew as he plans the second edition of Justify My Love, a sex-positive play party that the international media was quick to call a "handicapped orgy" when it launched in Toronto the year before. Throughout the film, Andrew discusses desire with a candour that cuts through the polite and often hypocritical discourse surrounding disability. "I own all of it. All of the crippled parts of me." At the heart of the film is the uneasy dichotomy that disabled people face of feeling either invisible or like a freak show, especially with regards to their sexuality. With its insistent and unflinching gaze, Picture This invites us to see them for who they are.
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| Item Description: | Agency - English program:.Ontario Studio. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video (33 min., 32 sec.) : sound |
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| Awards: | Audience Award for Best Short Film, 2017
Best Short Film, 2017
Best Canadian Short, 2017
Best Canadian Short Film, 2017
Jury Award for Best Documentary Short, 2018 |
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| Production Credits: | Writer, Jari Osborne ; director, Jari Osborne ; producer, Lea Marin ; executive producer, Anita Lee ; director of photography, David Cain ; editor, Steve Weslak ; sound recordist, Brent Haliskie ; original music composer, Robert Carli ; graphics, null Cain Creative ; sound editor, Claire Dobson ; foley, Andy Malcolm, Goro Koyama ; re-recording mixer, Matt Chan. |
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| Participant or Performer: | Featuring, Andrew Gurza, Stella Palikorova, Sher St. Kitts, Tinashe Dune, Aaron Purdie. |
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| Language: | described video. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2020-04-09). |
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| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Recorded 2017. |
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