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Anna Landre is a wheelchair-using activist & researcher whose work spans the areas of disability studies, disability culture, humanitarianism, emergency response, community-building, and social care policy. Within these, she focuses on what she calls the disability law “implementation gap”, which is when good laws on paper fail to translate into better outcomes for disabled people in practice. Her PhD at the Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub at UCL consists of a project to study and map disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) globally. Anna also works as the Global Research & Response Lead at The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, a disability-led disaster response organization that works in crises across the world. She serves as a Board Member of the National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) and Independent Living Alternatives (ILA). Previously, Anna was twice elected to local government in Washington, DC as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner. Anna served as an Advisory Board Member for the Emmy-winning short documentary film My Disability Roadmap and recently worked with artist Alistair Gentry on digital artworks that exhibited at Hoxton Hall this past spring.
Texture: London (work to home) 1
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen; only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving on the pavement. A smooth surface made of compressed gravel blurs underneath her wheels. Semi-circles of black tarmac come and go on the left of the screen at regular intervals as she moves forward. The pavement is stippled with leaves in various oranges and yellows.
00:30 – The pavement changes slightly after Anna rolls across a thin crack in it; it becomes darker and more varied in colour. . The black semi-circles still appear at regular intervals.
00:45 Anna gradually angles right, and the black semicircles move out of view. She moves over a white stripe that crosses the path.
00:51 Anna drives through a large puddle, her wheels pushing the water apart and interrupting the reflection of the sky and trees above her.
00:58 Anna drives over a tarnished metal drain cover. After another dividing
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen; only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving on the pavement. A smooth surface made of compressed gravel blurs underneath her wheels. Semi-circles of black tarmac come and go on the left of the screen at regular intervals as she moves forward. The pavement is stippled with leaves in various oranges and yellows.
030 – The pavement changes slightly after Anna rolls across a thin crack in it; it becomes darker and more varied in colour. . The black semi-circles still appear at regular intervals.
045 Anna gradually angles right, and the black semicircles move out of view. She moves over a white stripe that crosses the path.
51 Anna drives through a large puddle, her wheels pushing the water apart and interrupting the reflection of the sky and trees above her.
58 Anna drives over a tarnished metal drain cover. After another dividing.
Texture: London (work to home) 2
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen, only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey black wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving a serpentine route on the pavement, oblong grey paving bricks forming a mesmerising, repetitive geometric pattern diagonally across the screen. As she turns and drifts, the pattern within the frame shifts and changes.
00:10 Anna goes over a long, silver drainage track which moves, slanted, across the screen.
00:32 – Anna turns right, the pattern of the pavement then drifting diagonally left beneath her.
00:45 – She turns about 90 degrees left, the long lines of the bricks suddenly becoming parallel with the direction of her wheels.
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen, only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey black wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving a serpentine route on the pavement, oblong grey paving bricks forming a mesmerising, repetitive geometric pattern diagonally across the screen. As she turns and drifts, the pattern within the frame shifts and changes.
10 Anna goes over a long, silver drainage track which moves, slanted, across the screen.
032 – Anna turns right, the pattern of the pavement then drifting diagonally left beneath her.
45 – She turns about 90 degrees left, the long lines of the bricks suddenly becoming parallel with the direction of her wheels.
Texture: London (work to home) 3
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen, only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey black wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving a serpentine route on the pavement, oblong grey paving bricks forming a mesmerising, repetitive geometric pattern diagonally across the screen. As she turns and drifts, the pattern within the frame shifts and changes.
00:10 Anna goes over a long, silver drainage track which moves, slanted, across the screen.
00:32 – Anna turns right, the pattern of the pavement then drifting diagonally left beneath her.
00:45 – She turns about 90 degrees left, the long lines of the bricks suddenly becoming parallel with the direction of her wheels.
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen, only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey black wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving a serpentine route on the pavement, oblong grey paving bricks forming a mesmerising, repetitive geometric pattern diagonally across the screen. As she turns and drifts, the pattern within the frame shifts and changes.
10 Anna goes over a long, silver drainage track which moves, slanted, across the screen.
032 – Anna turns right, the pattern of the pavement then drifting diagonally left beneath her.
45 – She turns about 90 degrees left, the long lines of the bricks suddenly becoming parallel with the direction of her wheels.
In this piece, Landre uses film to explore the textural, visual, and sonic experience of movement as a wheelchair user. Intended to function as a triptych, the three films can be viewed concurrently or as separate entities. Beyond its descriptive value, the piece also raises questions about the built environment as a determinant of human quality of life, and our responsibility to maintain it