If you are interested in films with disability subject matter, please
include Liebe Perla (description follows), a film I am representing for
sale. For purchase or rental information, please write to me at
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Cheers, Simi
LIEBE PERLA
Shahar Rozen.1999. 53 min. Video. (Israel/Germany)
During the Holocaust, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted “scientific” experiments
on a Hungarian Jewish family of actors and musicians, all people of short
stature. Fifty years later, Hannelore Witkofski, a woman of short stature
born in post-war Germany, befriends the only surviving family member, Perla
Ovitz, now living in Israel. Perla asks Hannelore if she would look for a
film that Mengele made of her family in Auschwitz. As we follow the search,
Liebe Perla resurrects a lost history - the history of brutality toward and
murder of disabled people in Nazi Germany. This astounding, intimate film
tells us as much about the present moment as it does about that troubled
past - the friendship of two women, Hannelore and Perla, and, more broadly,
the social positioning of disabled people in these so-called enlightened
times.
For information about Liebe Perla, and to arrange for a screening and/or
panel discussion and presentation to go along with it contact Simi Linton at
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Simi Linton
Disability/Arts
140 Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10024
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-----Original Message-----
From: Disability Studies in the Humanities
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Johnson Cheu
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:23 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [DS-HUM] Fwd: Great new video by Snyder & Mitchell--Please
distribute
>All:
This from another list, so passing it on, in case you'll want the
purchasing info.
JC
> I accidently left out of the May GBN this item about the important new
>video by Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell, the good folks who brought us
>"Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back". This new work, "A World Without
>Bodies" is an incredible documentary that deserves as broad a viewership as
>possible so I'm asking each of you who receives this to distribute the
>information to newsletters, websites, lists, anywhere and everywhere you
can.
>I'm proud to have this stunning, often chilling, work in my video
collection.
>"A World Without Bodies" takes us on a journey into the deep heart of our
>darkest history, the birth of the Holocaust, its roots in the eugenics
>movement., with the murders of thousands of our disabled ancestors. This is
a
>scholarly and informative work, but with incredible power and emotional
>wallop. The use of Laurie Anderson's "Big Science" adds a haunting quality
to
>many of the scenes. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as I watched
>David Mitchell in his wheelchair roll up to the gas chamber door and open
it.
>I was right there with him. There was no way to not know that these
disabled
>people now touring this facility would've most surely been on the other
side
>of that door. This video should be in every school. On prime time TV. In
your
>CIL, rehab centers, and most definately part of the training program for
>future medicos. Please help pass the word. And if you're in the SF Bay
Area,
>come see this extraordinary video at the SDS conference.
>SDS CONFERENCE, June 5-9
>
>Information is available at:
>
>www.uic.edu/orgs/sds
>
>Title: "A World Without Bodies"
>A Documentary Film by Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell
>A Brace Yourselves Production, 2002
>35 minutes; VHS; Open Captioned
>
>"A World Without Bodies" documents the horror of the Nazi regime with
>respect to its treatment of disabled people. Beginning with an
>overview of American and European Eugenics ideology, the filmmakers
>delve into the instruments of mass murder developed first on the
>bodies of people with disabilities and later transferred to
>concentration camps. the video provides a haunting glimpse into the
>medical and social mindset that led to the systematic slaughter of
>more than 240,000 disabled individuals during World War II. The
>documentary ultimately asks us to contemplate the impact of these
>events on our attitudes toward disability today.
>
>Purchasing Information:
>
>$119 Institutional & Organizational Rate
>$65 Individuals
>$39 Low income
>plus $6 shipping & handling in U.S./$13 international
>
>Please address all orders to:
>
>Brace Yourselves Productions
>c/o Michelle Jarman
>Ph.D. in Disability Studies Program
>University of Illinois at Chicago
>1640 W. Roosevelt Rd., Room 207 (M/C 626)
>Chicago, Illinois 60610-626
>312-996-1508
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