“From Fairytale to Practice: Disability, Cinema and Power”: Workshop by the Cool Crips

Cool Crips is an organization founded by disabled people, who aim to make disability mainstream -on disabled people’s own terms- by adding a touch of coolness, sarcasm, and self-irony to everything they do. This workshop explores the relationship between disability, storytelling, and power in cinema, with particular emphasis on documentary film. Through a narrative parable, participants are invited to reconsider dominant narratives around disability and reflect on how representation shapes experiences of exclusion or participation. In the first part, stereotypical narratives are critically examined, while in the second part, participants move from analysis to practice, working in groups to design an accessible cultural project, such as a film screening or a shooting day. Who can attend: students, documentary filmmakers, cultural professionals, disabled and non-disabled people who wish to see cinema differently.