Santiago Hidalgo and Alice Guibert, as well as Lisa-Andrée Mélinand, have contributed articles to the latest issue of CiNéMAS, which is dedicated to disability diversity and inclusion in cinema.
Edited by Justine Dorval, Sendy-Loo Emmanuel et Maxime Michaud.
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This thematic issue of Cinémas, entitled Sensorialités: diversité capacitaire et cinéma, explores how cinema opens up multiple modes of perception, sensation, and being in the world. Examining perception not as a mere reception of stimuli but as an embodied and situated act, it questions the ways in which cinema—an inherently sensory art—can make perceptual experiences stemming from ability diversity visible and shareable.
The contributions gathered here aim to rethink the links between perception, creation, and accessibility through approaches shaped by experience and direct engagement. From a phenomenological and political perspective, Tyson Wils revisits Werner Herzog’s cinema through the notions of Umwelt and perceptual realism, framing cinema as a space of coexistence between sensory environments. Véro Leduc offers a self-reflexive text drawing from a research-creation process around deafhood, where signed music and sign language become visual forms of listening and sharing the sensible. Alice Guilbert and Santiago Hidalgo, for their part, examine the phenomenon of ASMR as an aesthetic device with therapeutic potential: their analyses combine cognitive sciences and media studies to explore the possibility of a true cine-therapy, where the body becomes an instrument of listening and resonance. Floriane Bardini demonstrates that audio description, far from being a mere technical tool, can become a creative and interpretive gesture capable of conveying a film’s emotional and stylistic charge. Lisa Mélinand reflects on the promise of universally accessible streaming, questioning the technical, social, and ecological obstacles linked to digital platforms. Finally, this issue includes, for the first time in Cinémas, an audio piece: an interview with filmmaker-researcher Steven Eastwood. In dialogue with him, Justine Dorval and Maxime Michaud explore the collaborative genesis of the film The Stimming Pool (2024) and the notion of an “autistic camera” that it advances, reconfiguring the relationship between gaze, rhythm, and sensoriality.
Combining film studies, research-creation, and capacity-based approaches, this issue opens a critical and poetic space where cinema becomes both a laboratory of the sensible and a field of perceptual emancipation—an art of difference, contact, and shared resonance.
With contributions by Tyson Wils, Véro Leduc, Alice Guilbert, Santiago Hidalgo, Floriane Bardini, Lisa Mélinand, Steven Eastwood, Justine Dorval et Maxime Michaud.
Miscellaneous: Marie Pascal, Camille Bui, Alkım Erol and Mustafa Erol.
Issue summary
- Présentation, Maxime Michaud et Justine Dorval
- Signer son fado. Réflexions sur les musiques sourdes à l’aune du cinéma, Véro Leduc
- Redécouvrir la ciné-thérapie au contact de l’ASMR, Santiago Hidalgo et Alice Guilbert
- Uncivilized Men: Umwelt, Nature and Aesthetic Alienation in Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kasper Hauser and Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Tyson Wils
- Vivre le film à travers l’audiodescription. La traduction du langage cinématographique pour les personnes aveugles ou ayant une basse vision, Floriane Bardini
- Vers un streaming cinématographique universellement accessible ?, Lisa Andrée Mélinand
- Shared Sensorialities: Reshaping Cinema through Neurodiversity. A Conversation with Steven Eastwood on The Stimming Pool (2024), Steven Eastwood, Maxime Michaud et Justine Dorval
Miscellaneous
- L’obsession du macro de Denis Villeneuve. Entre fétichisme, terreau diégétique et identité ipsé, Marie Pascal
- Resolution of the Quantum Multiverse and Quantum Consciousness Relationship through Everything Everywhere All at Once, Alkım Erol et Mustafa Erol
- Amsterdam par Johan van der Keuken : portrait de la ville globale de profil, Camille Bui
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