MAC presents accessible Donald Rodney Films

Donald Rodney: Three Songs On Pain, Time and Light

MAC Birmingham
Sat 28 Mar
5:00pm

To mark the culmination of their three-year Expanding The Frame initiative to increase accessibility in the MAC Cinema programme, MAC birmingham will be premiering brand new audio description and creative caption tracks for the acclaimed Donald Rodney short Three Songs On Pain, Time and Light.

Made by Trevor Mathison and Edward George and produced with Black Audio Film Collective, Three Songs On Pain, Time and Light documents the life and work of Donald Rodney (1961-1998), a Black British disabled artist with Jamaican heritage, who grew up in Smethwick on the outskirts of Birmingham. He lived with Sickle Cell Anaemia and interrogated racism, masculinity and disability in his art. He passed away at the age of 37.

The new accessibility tracks have been created through a series of workshops with visually impaired audience members who regularly attend accessible screenings at MAC, led by associate programmer Elaine Lillian Punia-Joseph. Elaine is an Afro-Caribbean audio describer from Birmingham and the Creative Lead at SoundScribe, a global majority collective of audio describers and blind or partially sighted consultants.

The film will be presented with a new creative caption track by disabled-led collective Carefuffle, a new audio description track by SoundScribe and a Q&A with key contributors to the project, including artist Beverley Bennett.

Booking info

To book Accessible tickets and free Companion tickets, please visit MAC's Accessible Bookings page. Companion tickets will initially show a standard ticket price, but once your account is set-up and you are logged in, this will be reduced to £0 at checkout.

Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. MAC do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and have a limited food & drink policy.

MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.