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Emilio Insolera
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“I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in «Sign Gene», al cinema arrivano i supereroi sordi mutanti (September 12, 2017), Corriere della Sera)
“The eye of the deaf sees what is invisible to the eye of the hearing.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in (April 26, 2016)
“Our diversity is our superpower.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in (April 26, 2017)
“My deafness is my superpower.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in (March 5, 2017)
“From the director to the international cast, all of them are from deaf families for generations, while the film industry usually entrusts these roles to audacious interpreters that end up being bad imitators of the Sign language.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Cinema. Quando il super eroe è sordo(September 10, 2017), Avvenire)
“My first impression was that I had stumbled into the future, but as a linguist I was also instantly fascinated with Japanese and how it has a relationship with sign language. Kanji are usually concepts or ideas and then hiragana acts as a bridge for communication It’s the same with sign language: We use fingerspelling (spelling out the alphabet with your hands) between our conceptual signs.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Deaf filmmaker Emilio Insolera flexes his superpowers with ‘Sign Gene’(November 14, 2018)The Japan Times)
“I’ve often felt visual communicators have superhero-like qualities.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in “Sign Gene”: Emilio Insolera on Creating the World’s First Deaf Superhero Film(November 1, 2018)Tokyo Weekender)
“You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Italian language is not just sonore. It is also visual.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source