Notes on Blindness

Director: Peter Middleton and James Spinney

Film Details: 90 minutes, 2016, UK, color, DCP

Co-presented with the ReelAbilities Film Festival Boston

Film Website | Trailer | Tickets available soon!

World Premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and Winner of the Innovation Award at the 2016 Sheffield Doc/Fest

Directors James Spinney and Peter Middleton will attend via Skype for discussion with local film journalist Erin Trahan, a regular contributor to WBUR’s The ARTery.

About the Film:

In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, writer and theologian John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audiocassette. Following the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, NOTES ON BLINDNESS takes a creative approach to the documentary form. Actors lip-synch to the voices of the family, embedding John’s original audio recordings within compelling cinematography and textured sound design. The result is a poetic and intimate story of loss, rebirth and transformation, documenting John’s extraordinary journey into “a world beyond sight.”