PASSING
PASSING invites you to take a peek behind the pink, velvet curtain to witness a captivating exploration of performance and identity, magic and virtuosity. Delve into this strange, plush world.
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When I first met Sindri — one of the performers in the film, we were both invited to CRIP Lab, which was a residency for disabled artists in Dusseldorf. As soon as we met we became this troublesome twosome, partly because we were the only two people who were visually impaired on the residency, and so we often sat near the front watching films and learning about artists work, ad hoc audio describing stuff to each other. There was a moment when we were in a hotel bar having drinks and Sindri’s wine came in one of those perilously tall stemmed wine glasses. Sindri has very little central vision and uses peripheral vision. When the waiter put the wineglass down on the table, I watched Sindri reach for it and pick it up in this elegantly perfect movement, using senses other than sight. I thought of it as a magic act, a beautiful illusion that they just performed for me. It made me begin to think about the performativity of living in a disabled body and perform the illusion of sightedness.

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