Emilio Insolera Quotes

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.

The eye of the deaf sees what is invisible to the eye of the hearing.

My deafness is my superpower.

Our diversity is our superpower.

“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.

You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow.

Italian language is not just sonore. It is also visual.

I’ve often felt visual communicators have superhero-like qualities.

As quoted in Cinema. Quando il super eroe è sordo(September 10, 2017), Avvenire)

I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language.