A Window Into A World Without Speech | Whose Voice Is It Anyway by Kate Caryer | Random Acts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Language some viewers may find offensive.
A darkly funny mockumentary about two identically ‘disabled’ forty-year-old women: Lottie and Charlie, who have athetoid cerebral palsy. Both celebrate their 40th birthday with family and friends, yet one is given the choice and the ability to communicate, and one is not.
This is Kate Caryer’s debut as a writer and director on film however she is well-versed in the world of performance arts. Kate Caryer is the founding member of the Unspoken Project CIC, she is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication, aka AAC user and has a BA Hons in Performing Arts: Community Development and an MA in Disability Studies and Special Education from the University of Leeds. At the 2014 Communication Matters, she won the Alan Martin Award for Contribution to the Arts, partly for her work for The Unspoken Project. Recent productions with the Unspoken Project include ‘Speechless the Musical’ and ‘The Voice Monologues’
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Thumbnail Image Description: In her living room Charlie a white disabled woman with short pink hair wearing a black t-shirt with the phrase, “Sarcasm loading… please wait” and trousers is dancing excitedly using her electric wheelchair. In the background there is a lava lamp, a TV, a plant, a giraffe carving and three posters with the following phrases, “Rights not charity,” “Music is my escape,” and “My house, my music!” On top of the image is the title of the file, ‘Whose Voice is it Anyway’ and the Random Acts logo on the bottom left.
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This is a brilliant short film. Nice one Kate.
I intend to use this as part of my work supporting disabled adults and employers with jobs and changing the world.
What a fantastic young woman. A creative genius showing that disability doesn't mean you can't live a normal life because what is normal. Kate you are a fantastic writer actress and voice for anyone who is disabled. My daughter has just met you on the train from London and she is in awe of you. She and I wish you well in all the writing, filming and acting you do in the future. X❤
This is a wonderfully provocative film, which clearly shows how important it is that access to communication aids be given routinely to those with cerebral palsy or who otherwise have no or little speech - because there is a person there who given a voice is given a life. Although the film pokes fun at the different attitudes of parents of children with CP that may result in some children being treated as infants not capable of communicating at an adult level and parked in institutions (at what cost I would ask?) it is in fact very sad that for some, even in the 21st century, this is their lot. I hope the film is brought to a wider audience so as to challenge perceptions of those with CP and no or little biological speech.
thank you thank you thank you
Wow Kate! It's great! I'm about to meet up with some US visitors who work with PWDs, and I'll show it to them, and to Chris. Anne would have loved it! Rosie
Thank you for this Kate. You just made my day and I will try to go make it count.
Brilliant, challenging, funny. We all know parents like one or the other - and the professionals in health and social care largely responsible for pushing them in one direction, or the other.
thank you
As a mom of a 34 year old. I needed to see this mini movie. Loved it!
Chris has just watched your film Whose Voice Is It Anyway and is very enthusiastic. Now working on distribution! I've got to send a link to the US visitors, who missed it, unfortunately. And I've got to load it onto the work computers, to show people in the waiting room! What about another one!??? Rosie 2
I adore this film! And it would have helped me such a lot when I was a new parent ☺️💖🔥🔥🔥
This was fantastic! Awesome work Kate!
This is amazing. Perfect. It made me cringe. Empowerment all the way, I'm so glad you can be the voice for others that can't, or choose not to.
This is brilliant ❤ the video is incredible!!!
Heh. Awesome :)
Ha ha ha, great job Kate, I particularly like the wig!
happy birthday ive seen this vidio half way through and from where im seeing this it seems that you are being patronized i could be wrong here but thats just how it seems to me
please watch it all I wrote it myself to show how patronising people can be
Kate, I love your film. It's brilliant. Wow! I wish you the world! 🥰
Don’t really like this video as it’s saying one place a better life than the other
That's the whole point of the film!
would you like to live without communication ?
Well, one of the women could express a choice and so she chose the life she wanted; the other one was not given a voice, so we can only guess which she would have preferred...
Duh - are you saying all places are the same? Anne McDonald was starved in an institution from age 3 to 18, when she weighed 40 pounds. After she left and got enough to eat she gained weight till she reached 115 pounds. She also started to grow, going from 35 inches to 58 inches.