Audio descriptions can integrate the projection and the original soundtrack of a film. During the pauses between dialogs, an off-screen voice describes what is happening on the screen, thus compensating any possible visual difficulties on the part of the viewer. The narrator describes the places and the situations, indicates the people present in the scene and mentions their most significant gestures, thus helping sight-impaired spectators follow the developments in the on-screen action. Audio descriptions are meant for completely blind people, permitting them to follow film projections along with the other viewers, and also for spectators with visual deficits of varying degrees (sight-impaired). The audio description is transmitted during the film projection through infrared earphones which are distributed after an ID has been deposited.
Entrance is free of charge for blind and visually-impaired spectators, accompaniers pay the reduced entrance fee.
Motivations and objectives
- To promote socialization.
- To offer spectators with visual disabilities the opportunity to participate at film projections and enjoy the film in an autonomous and individual way without having to depend on the support of an accompanier.
- Social interaction and integration: since projections with audio descriptions are part of the cinema’s regular programming, they are appointments both for spectators without sight impediments and for those with visual disabilities.
- To make people without sight impediments aware of the initiative.
Projections with audio descriptions
Le notti bianche, L. Visconti, 1957
Bellissima, L. Visconti, 1951
Madame Bovary, C. Chabrol, 1991
Le affinità elettive, P. and V. Taviani, 1996
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, G. Tornatore, 1989
Roma città aperta, R. Rossellini, 1945
The Pursuit of Happiness, G. Muccino, 2006
Colpire al cuore, G. Amelio, 1982
Crisalidi, M. Locatelli, 2004
I tempi che cambiano, A. Techiné, 2004
Atlantic City, L. Malle,
Avvenne…domani, R. Clair, 1944
Chiedo asilo, M. Ferreri, 1979
The Interpreter, S. Pollack, 2005
Il gatto a nove code, D. Argento, 1971
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