It is inspired by the neurodiversity paradigm - the understanding that all human brains are different, and that each person experiences the world in unique ways.

 

Susan Sontag argued that our sensory perception indeed makes us who we are, more than conceptual knowledge does: 

'we are what we are able to see (hear, taste, smell, feel) even more profoundly than we are what furniture of ideas we have stocked in our heads’. 

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For neurodivergent individuals with heightened sensory differences it might even mean, in the words of autistic advocate Temple Grandin, living in an 'alternate sensory reality’.

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The film programme draws on ideas Patrycja Loranc explores in her practice-research: considering experience as an active interaction with the world, and thinking about how can the sensory identity be expressed, evoked, explored by adventures in perception made available by the medium of film? How does that process mediate the ability to connect to the world and to each other, through a non-conceptual, directly experienced type of understanding?

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