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In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audio cassette.
Notes on Blindness
2014 Directed by Pete Middleton, James Spinney
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"Cognition is beautiful. To know is beautiful."
What would you do if you wake up one day and realize that you can no longer feel your existence? You can no longer remember the faces of your loved ones. That your memories are gradually evaporating. That you are getting sucked into a dark and freezing void. What if you could no longer see?
This is probably the most claustrophobic experience of the year. From those beginning moments you feel that like film's central character you are trapped inside a dark space. John Hull - the writer who lost his sight in 1983 - tells us about his experiences of blindness and his feelings - ranging from anger, desperation and fear to…
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"Who have the right to deprive me of the sight of my children on Christmas time?"
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Deeply affective and compelling, blending the audio recordings with environmental sonic immersion. The images were beautiful but I couldn't help but think about the compulsion to continually fill the screen with images while hearing about Hull's personal experience of blindness.
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The sound design was absolutely spectacular. I found the heightened, more intimate audio really imitated the supposed increased senses you get when you lose your sight.
An incredibly emotional piece.
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"Why should this experience strike one as being beautiful? Cognition is beautiful. It is beautiful to know."
Turns out this was a short film first.
The longer runtime of the film lets the viewer get into the head of Hull where the short film you really can't.
It's a great short though. -
Philosophical documentary based on the recordings of theologian John M Hull.