What does it mean to be an artist? When she came to the attention of documentarian Lisa Olivieri, Patricia Livingstone was losing both her sight and her hearing. She was trying to finish a painting - to know that she could achieve this one thing, to make the rest bearable. This was an intriguing situation in itself, but as she got to know her subject, Olivieri realised that there was much, much more to her story.
Patricia is one of the most persistently creative people one could meet. Her home, where most of the footage here was shot, is a testament to that, and throughout the film she's innovating, find ways to work around her impairments and coming up with new ideas. It would be difficult to make a dull film about her. Although we see the serious impact that her impairments have on her life, and the difficult psychological journey.
Patricia is one of the most persistently creative people one could meet. Her home, where most of the footage here was shot, is a testament to that, and throughout the film she's innovating, find ways to work around her impairments and coming up with new ideas. It would be difficult to make a dull film about her. Although we see the serious impact that her impairments have on her life, and the difficult psychological journey.
- 10/21/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Patricia Livingstone in Blindsided
Carving out a career in the arts is a already more challenging if one is a woman, and still more so as a lesbian. Add to that the experience of losing one’s sight and hearing and it might seem impossible, but Patricia Livingstone has the kind of creative spirit that it’s impossible to keep down. It’s easy to see why documentarian Lisa Olivieri felt drawn to tell her story. Once she did, it proved to have additional elements that made it much more complex – and more powerful – than she had expected. As preparations were made for the resulting film to screen at this year’s Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Lisa and I met to discuss how it all came about.
“I met Patricia, I think in like, 1996,” she says. “And when I met her, she was living with Karen. They were friends.
Carving out a career in the arts is a already more challenging if one is a woman, and still more so as a lesbian. Add to that the experience of losing one’s sight and hearing and it might seem impossible, but Patricia Livingstone has the kind of creative spirit that it’s impossible to keep down. It’s easy to see why documentarian Lisa Olivieri felt drawn to tell her story. Once she did, it proved to have additional elements that made it much more complex – and more powerful – than she had expected. As preparations were made for the resulting film to screen at this year’s Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Lisa and I met to discuss how it all came about.
“I met Patricia, I think in like, 1996,” she says. “And when I met her, she was living with Karen. They were friends.
- 10/10/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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