TRANSLATING COLORS with Josep Giribet

Narrated and directed by ODEDA ROSENTHAL New Educational Video on Daltonism (color blindness) Odeda Rosenthal [1934-2007] In the summer of 2005 I spoke at the International Color Conference in Granada (Spain). I focused on the historic fear and prejudice towards the topic of color blindness, in spite of the fact that this condition is something that affects more than 10% of the males of the world. (Never mind the many males and females who are now acquiring it because of drug side effects, trauma and other reasons). This, at a time when color-coded information has flooded the world as never before in history, and often requires real-time decision making, especially via computer, and obviously, in daily life decisions. At the conference I met Josep Giribet, a professor of video production at the Instiut Universitari de l’Audiovisual (IUA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He is also a professional photographer and independent producer of documentaries for television, as well as an artist who is color blind. As an artist, he has wished to paint in full color although he has this inherited condition, and cannot see some of the colors as others might. He has duertonopia, or “green-vision” problems. He thus developed a system for himself. With this system he managed to produce some lovely realistic artwork. At the conference he spoke of his personal system, which uses the computer as color translator. This was the first time this conference tackled this topic of color blindness in 30 years. The topic is too often ignored. We met we decided to produce an educational video because, like so many others who live with this condition, he felt that no one had ever understood what he was trying to explain about his color vision, and he had the expertise of production, while I had the expertise of understanding the details of the vocabulary of the color confused and the human factors involved. It was a perfect match. This was our aim: 1. To show that pers...

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