12. Accessing Alternative Ethical Maps of In(ter)depenent Living in Global Disability Documentary

This chapter involves an analysis of some representational methods operating within international in(ter)dependent disability films – specifically within the genre of disability documentary. In(ter)dependent disability films, when contextualised by Q&As, talks, and/or lectures within public settings such as festivals and/or community screenings, allow for a crucial collective alternative approach to imagining ways of being disabled emerging in the twenty-first century. This opportunity to reimagine the value as well as the alternative modes of living in which disabled people engage provides opportunities for further raising public awareness about inclusion (i.e. the necessity and even value of the sharing of public space with disabled people long cloistered in homes and institutions). Additionally, global disability cinema now provides viewers with an alternative ethical map of living interdependently with each other.