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A Different Look (orig. Inne spojrzenie)
It is a film that shows how persons with sight disabilities function, how they find their way in the visual world and what tools they use on a daily basis. On the one hand, it presents the perspective of a blind student at the Jagiellonian University and a blind graduate from the same school who talk about their student experience from the perspective of persons with sight disabilities. On the other hand, the camera follows AC specialists who share their experience in providing technological support to them, representatives of the Institute of Romance Philology at the JU working with our unit to develop adapted Spanish classes, and an adapter of educational materials. From another perspective, the film presents statements of participants in open lectures we staged at the University as part of the ‘To Touch Culture’ series, which took into account the needs of persons with sight disabilities. As the organiser, we offered participants auxiliary printouts of tactile graphics and descriptions in Braille relating to the objects discussed by the speaker. The different perspectives are linked by the narrator, who sometimes comments on the scenes presented and sometimes poses open questions without an answer, leaving room for reflection. The film is worth watching to increase the viewer’s awareness and to understand, quoting one of the film’s characters, that ‘seeing does not necessarily mean knowing everything’.
Film A Different Look with subtitles:
Film A Different Look with audio description:
In a Foreign Language (orig. W obcym języku)
Deaf persons are often not fluent in Polish and Polish is a foreign language to them, in which case providing equal educational opportunities is a challenge. They have different life experiences that affect the way they communicate with others. These may include lipreading with hearing aids, using Polish Sign Language or bilingualism. A JU AC educational adviser, an English language teacher at the Jagiellonian Language Centre and a staff member from the Disability Support Service at the AGH University talk about the experiences of people with hearing disabilities. The film shows what challenges Polish education for deaf persons faces, and how public awareness must change so that access to various services, including higher education, for persons with hearing disabilities can become an everyday reality.
Film In a Foreign Language with subtitles
Film In a Foreign Language with audio description
I Am Human (orig. Jestem człowiekiem)
The film addresses the issue of persons with mental health difficulties of various degrees. We have dealt with this topic on a number of occasions, particularly with the Constellation Leo project carried out between 2010 and 2012, during which we were able to organise counselling and comprehensive support for students experiencing mental health difficulties. University study time is a great period in a young person’s life, but also a time of great change and stress, which can lead to various mental crises. This film illustrates the problem of struggling with everyday life in the face of mental disorders and presents the position of a psychiatrist working with the JU AC. It is worth seeing, if only to find out how thin the line is between the state of mental equilibrium and the symptoms of a disorder. It is sometimes hard to see it even for those who are close to a person experiencing such difficulties. In addition, the film makes us aware that each of us may face such difficulties at some stage in our lives.