Shot on a mobile phone during lockdown in Gqeberha, South Africa, a filmmaker contemplates creating within an unchanging frame of reference. The film centres around her home, The Blue House, a tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Kahlo was her source of inspiration when she became a person with a disability during a turf war in Cape Town in 1996. A Camera on my Lap ponders questions concerning representation on the cinematic screen and responds to the challenge of creative practice during a pandemic.
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Shelley Barry
Dr Shelley Barry is a multi-award winning filmmaker. Her films span across genres and are largely experimental in style. She often shoots her own films, exploring the aesthetics of cinematography from the perspective of a wheelchair user. Screenings of her work were held at major festivals and events around the world and acquired by television. New York University and Princeton University are two of the international libraries that has purchased her work. Shelley has worked extensively as a disability rights activist, following a shooting in the Cape taxi wars of 1996 that resulted in her being a wheelchair user.
selection:
HERE (2019)
I, scream (2019)
Ink/Visible (2018)
Out of Reach (2018)
Re:incarnation (2018)
I’m not done yet (2015)
Diaries of a Dissident Poet (2014)
Mr Shakes the passion to Live (2013)
Where we planted Trees (2007)
Umbilical Cord (2006)
