Face of Our Fear (1992)
65 min
A richly conceived essay about the evolving image of disability. Dwoskin begins with the declaration that the historically distorted images of people with disabilities constitute a “negation of selfhood”. He then traces this concerted effort through two thousand years of Western culture, beginning with the Greek notion of the idealized body and its opposite, the fabulous races. Using contemporary films clips, literary quotations, performance, and pictorial records, Face Of Our Fear looks at the Court’s infatuation with “monsters” during the Middle Ages, the “charity cripples” of the Enlightenment, the freakshows of the nineteenth century, each a resort to oppressive stigmatization.
- Release date
- January 1, 1991
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
- Music
- Alexander Balanescu
Cast
- Chris Harrison as Self
- Kirsteen Knight as Self
- Samena Rana as Self
- Nicholas Slater as Self
- Simon Mark Smith as Self
- Ellen Stohl
- Julie Umerle as Self
Crew
- Stephen Dwoskin · Director
- Alexander Balanescu · Composer