About this Short Film
The Making of Iso Rap (Inkrewsive Hip Hop, Australia 2020) explores the role of hip hop and dance in the lives of young adults with intellectual and congenital disabilities. Presented as a video, it highlights group creativity, movement and self-expression. The film sits comfortably within the Focus on Ability festival, showing how artistic practice reveals skill, community and joy. Warm and direct in tone, it invites audiences to appreciate performance and collaboration on their own terms, and to recognise the achievements of the people involved without reducing them to labels.
Film Details
Country:
Australia
Category:
Open Entrant Documentaries
Genre:
Personal Story
Festival Year:
2020
Filmmaker:
Inkrewsive Hip Hop
Film Transcript
Hi everyone.
[Music]
The reason why I love doing hip hop is showing my music and my creativity worldwide. Well, I love it — probably the reason why I love coming to hip-hop is seeing my friends and dancing. Mainly I would like to learn how to rap. Right, that's all. I just love the talent.
My name is Motley. I'm a rapper and a producer and I've worked with half of you guys before, and we worked on a song called "Superstar". It was amazing and now we're about to do the whole thing again but online. How crazy is this?
When I can feel something high like a tree I could be boxing wanting to flee. I could sing along with a quarrel virus. What about if the next lyric was "shut up charm, shut off and closed up" — oh, shut down, shut down.
Yes, my name is Lee. Who might be... I want to change the world, not let me shut down one bit. Before I'm back, like, what are your rights? What do you have the right to? I believe people to have a voice and to just speak out.
I'm Amber. Can you come here? I want you to stick to the wall where I'm standing, right here. Okay, don't worry. So maybe you just go, and this time — oh, that's perfect. There's so much more light there. That's where we'll be recording tomorrow. Ready up: one, two, three, four. Open, two, three, shift in, out, push.
I do like all the dancing and the rap, but the part where I'll say kind of tells us to go side to side, centre, centre, so I was a bit... I've got a couple of computers set up but we'll record one of you for pretty much the whole session.
It's just me, all this news. Two weeks since I've seen them; I feel frustrated usually.
Thank you for all your work today everyone — amazing. All right, same with me, thanks everyone, awesome. What I need is... I name everyone before I need.
Filmmaker
Inkrewsive Hip Hop is the filmmaker behind this entry. See every Focus on Ability entry from Inkrewsive Hip Hop.
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