Notes on Blindness
Year: 2016
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE
Run Time:
87 minutes
In 1983, just days after the birth of his son, John Hull went blind. After a lifetime of issues with his sight, Hull was told the loss was permanent. His training as a theologian, as well as his standing as a lecturer and researcher, motivated him not to surrender his place in the world, but rather to explore his blindness and try to make sense of it. He built a team of people to record the great books he needed to read, amassing hundreds of cassettes. Then John began his own audio journal—his own notes on blindness—to document his journey into the profound impact this sensory loss would have on his work, his family, and his new relationship to the existence that had so abruptly been altered. NOTES ON BLINDNESS plays these recordings while enacting them for us visually with poetic and touching delicacy. Here is the truly inspirational and fearless quest of a remarkable man to accept, understand, and make use of a shattering life event. –C.R.
Notes on Blindness is part of a multi-platform project that also includes the VR experience Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, featured in the Perspectives exhibition.
CIFF40 Screenings
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 at 4:00 PM
Thursday, April 07, 2016 at 2:15 PM
Competition
Global Health Competition
Directors
Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Filmography
NOTES ON BLINDNESS (2016)
Producers
Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Alex Usborne
Screenwriting
Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Cinematography
Gerry Floyd
Editing
Julian Quantrill
Principal Cast
Dan Skinner, Simone Kirby
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