https://theother2016.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/living-in-silence-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F-the-sign-language/
The Other & the Moving Image will examine not only the relationship between the moving image and other art forms, but also, and in particular, how the moving image helps to visualize 'otherness'. The Other distinguishes, refers to and identifies the action of placing someone outside
the center, at the margins. In practice, Othering excludes those persons who do not fit the “norm”. The Other & the Moving Image is focused on the arts and cultures of small and poor countries, black and ethnic minority groups, people with disabilities, subcultures, women, older people, LGBT, immigrants and disadvantaged individuals in order to challenge euro-centric, male-dominated academic curricula. The Other & the Moving Image is about creating a fairer society, where everyone can participate and everyone has the opportunity to succeed. The project is about equality and diversity. The Arts are the ideal medium because they bring people together, towards a world free from slavery. Indeed, as the First Lady Michelle Obama said, celebrating Nowruz at the White House : "Our diversity has been—and will always be—our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States." We will add that not only in USA, but also in the Americas, in the entire world, because diversity is more than just skin colour. Diversity is also gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, cultural-social background and diversity of thought. The Other & the Moving Image aims primarily to support the work developed by the UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Its first series of events was supported by the Bloomsbury Theater Studio, UCL Institute of the Americas, UCL MA Film Studies and MA African Studies liberating and connecting their curriculum with others departments in UCL and with other universities in UK. It works in partnership with cultural organisations and institutions at a local, national and international levels. It is based on UCL Library collections, disseminating our audio-visual materials (identifying areas for improvement). It demonstrates the significance, how relevant Library collections are to an academic curriculum, particularly, in those issues as human rights, human traffic, race, gender, equality, colonialism, labour history, development and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The project can only work in collaboration with student societies-groups, Alumni and other departments, such as the Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry, SSEES and the Spanish & Latin American Dept. The project intents to support their current modules and research projects in Film, Comparative Literature, African, Gender, Translation and Cultural Studies. The first three one-day events were supported by UCL Institute of the Americas, UCL MA Film Studies and MA African Studies, the ICAIC, the BFI and the National Portrait Gallery London / for UCL Connected Curriculum, Liberating the Curriculum Working Group and the British-Cuban Heritage Trust for the Arts.
