How do blind people perceive the world and which sensory impressions remain hidden from sighted people? The experimental film explores this question in a multi-layered way. A sculptor's workshop, a painting museum and an orchestra become the settings for the richness that the perceptions of the different senses bring with them. Sound and image merge and bring the theme to life.
Evgen Bavčar
Mathias Weik
Rainer Damerius
Walter Salzmann
Anoma Tissera
How do blind people perceive the world and which sensory impressions remain hidden from sighted people? The experimental film explores this question in a multi-layered way. A sculptor's workshop, a painting museum and an orchestra become the settings for the richness that the perceptions of the different senses bring with them. Sound and image merge and bring the theme to life.
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.
After an attack renders her blind, Ellen withdraws from the world to recover. But soon she plunges into paranoia, unable to convince anyone that her assailant has returned to terrorize her by hiding in plain sight.
Danny is a blind man who does not let his impairment get in the way of living his life to the fullest, except when it comes to love. Danny's brother sets him up on a series of blind dates, but all of them go disastrously wrong. Just when Danny is about to give up, he meets Leeza, a nurse who works for Danny's doctor. There is just one catch: Leeza, who is from India, is promised to another man.
Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.