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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky--Deafness in Three Movements
Description: In this  2019 podcast, filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky discusses her project "Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements," and her commitment to making films accessible to differently-abled audiences. We talk about her first feature documentary, "Hear and Now," which won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2007 and explored her deaf parentsâ experiences when they were 65 with cochlear implants and its relationship to her film âMoonlight Sonata," which was partly inspired by her deaf son, Jonas, who was driven to learn to play Beethoven's âMoonlight Sonataâ. We discuss the emotional and historical significance of Beethovenâs work, particularly how his deafness influenced his composit...