Petra Kuppers, Professor of English Language and Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, and Art and Design, has won the 2024 Best Artists Film prize in the Together! Disability Film Festival.
Professor Petra Kuppers’ experimental documentary, Crip/Mad Archive Dances, explores how “disabled and mad people survive, dance, insert their differences in a world full of stigma,” and documents how “we live through bodymindpsirit experiences of alienation and pain.” Through gestural offerings and disability culture archives, Kuppers has created an incredible film detailing “embodied gestures of survival and creative expression.”
The Together! 2024 Disability Film Festival screened more than 50 films for their Kat Awards, and chose Crip/Mad Archive Dances as their winner for Best Artists Film.
The film has been presented in the UK, Greece, and Canada. It also won the Accessibility and Environment Film Festival’s Jury Award Special Mention. The lecture that accompanied the film won Professor Kuppers the Calgary Artistic Research Award last June.
The full film can be seen here, with an in-depth Audio-Described Version here.
Congratulations, Professor Kuppers!
