Disability has never had its revolutionary moment: no Suffrage, Stonewall or Watts Riots.

‘The Way Out’ stages a reversal of this historical omission, imagining a world in which a violent, insurrectionary gang of ‘disability terrorists’ has brought the world to its knees
à la Baader Meinhof and Angry Brigade. Under siege from the cops, the gang implodes, killing time, doing drugs, making art and writing bad pop songs, as the walls of their bunker loom in...

The movie is a hole at the centre of this parody – the missing film about an absent revolution.

15mm Films challenge normative perceptions of disabled people and believe that much of the social pressure that goes by the name of ‘disability politics’ is ineffectually sanctioned – absorbed ‘top down’, by running a tick box regime, rather than through grass-roots activism. A collective of artists working in the fields of visual, performance and video art, they take an experimental approach to collaboration. Current members of the collective are Aaron Williamson, Katherine Araniello, Laurence Harvey, Simon Raven, Juliet Robson and Philip Ryder.

The Way Out is a Beaconsfield Commission supported by
National Lottery through Arts Council England, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and
Arts & Humanities Research Council.

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