NEOREALIST CINEMA, an exhibition for all. The first National Cinema Museum's temporary exhibition with a totem providing Facility Access Information
The project for facilitating accessibility to the NEOREALIST CINEMA exhibition dedicated to neorealism, under Alberto Barbera’s curatorship with Grazia Paganelli and Fabio Pezzetti Tonion’s collaboration, considered to be the first great revolution in our cinematography in turning it into a useful art for the pursuit of “the artistic form of truth”, as Roberto Rossellini wished, has become operative. This exhibition set up by the National Cinema Museum, which may be visited until 29 November 2015, will accompany the spectator through a journey beginning from the debut of this aesthetic “revolution”.
In order to satisfy its visitors’ differing needs, the museum has made a totem available with Facility Access Information, offering purposely envisaged support:
- videos to introduce and accompany the exhibition with an audio commentary, a LIS interpreter (Italian Signs Language) and subtitles, which may be activated from a smartphone by means of optical TAGs and touch TAGs (NFC);
- a map of the exhibition floor on a panel and visual-touch cards;
- an introductory text in Braille and the layout of the exhibition printed in relief on paper;
- a high legibility text and fonts suitable for dyslexic persons;
- a facilitated text in Italian;
- the resume of the panels at the exhibition with translations into 6 foreign languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese).
The videos with audio commentary and a LIS interpreter, as well as the cards, can also be downloaded from the www.museocinema.it and www.neorealismo.com websites.
This project is part of The Museum for Everyone, the Museum for You, which addresses facilitated access to the exhibits on display according to the visitors’ differing needs, in order to make the Museum more welcoming and a visitor’s experience increasingly pleasant.
This hub has been created by the National Cinema Museum in collaboration with Tactile Vision Onlus, Consorzio Kairos / Associazione Nazionale Interpreti LIS and the Fondazione Carlo Molo Onlus / Torino + Cultura Accessibile.
Furthermore, in the month of November 2015, the Cinema Massimo will host a showcase dedicated to neorealist cinema, offering the most important films of that period in conjunction with subsequent works. A few titles will be offered with an audio description and subtitles for persons with sensorial disabilities, within the framework of Torino + Cultura Accessibile.