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Louisville’s Touch Models Initiative "Louisville’s Textures" See Me, Feel Me

Louisville’s Touch Models Initiative - "Louisville’s Textures" See Me, Feel Me - - is a musical montage based on a photographic essay composed of the public cultural treasure found within the city of Louisville, KY, USA - most of which is currently inaccessible to the blind and sight-impaired, without touchable 3D models.

  • Louisville Touch Models Initiative
    Director
  • Kilo Watts
    editor
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Music Video, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 29 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States, United States
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • “Louisville’s TEXTURES” has shown at: ************* • Louisville’s International Festival of Film, "Experimental & New Media" (award winner) • Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards - “Experimental Film“ (award winner) • Rome Music Video Awards - “Art Music Video“ • Munich Music Video Awards - “Experimental Music Video“ • Gangtok International Film Festival - “Photography” (award winner) • European Photography Awards (award winner) • Beyond Earth Film Festival - “Short Film” (award winner) • Texas Film Festival - “Short Animation Film” • Euro Music Video Song Awards (Paris) - “Best Sound Design” • Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards - “Editing” (award winner)
Director Biography - Louisville Touch Models Initiative

The Touch Models Initiative is allied with blind and low-vision citizens, their advocates, and their families.
The initiative promotes offering 3D tactile models for the sight-impaired at public venues.

The goals of the Touch Models Initiative are to:
1) facilitate more meaningful experiences of the physical world which may be inaccessible for the blind and visually impaired,
2) welcome all visitors and their families to venues with inclusive multi-sensory experiences, including touchable tactile 3D-models.

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Director Statement

Many of our sight-impaired citizens and neighbors live a life of isolation and cultural segregation.
Yet, they and their families are taxpayers, consumers of products, and contribute to our financial prosperity which pays for incentives like the public art, cultural events, and the venues which are meant to be enjoyed by all.
With a nominal expenditure, cities can profoundly address the cultural discrimination of one of our most overlooked minorities

So that EVERY citizen can feel a part of their culture.

“worse than being blind - is having sight but no vision”. Helen Keller
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