Coming to Discovery+ today, Thursday, October 14:
CRUTCH
Director:
Sachi Cunningham, Vayabobo
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2020
Select Festivals:
Cleveland, ReelAbilities, Bentonville
About:
From angry skatepunk to international provocateur, the emotional story of a one-of-a-kind artist’s struggle to be understood.
The film previously screened at DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
Dance, art, performance, and disability politics converge in this entertaining and enlightening portrait of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, break dancer, and skate punk, who wields his crutches as tools of expression and instruments for audience provocation. The film journeys through a decade of intimate access and a lifetime of archival footage that includes Shannon’s stage work for Cirque du Soleil, the Sydney Opera House, the Tate Modern, and the Chicago MOCA.
what (not) to doc 