This absorbing film soberly reconstructs audio diaries that chart theologian John M Hull’s experience of becoming blind. It is moving and profound Related: Notes on Blindness: the film approximately losing sight,but gaining vision Notes on Blindness is a filmic essay in biography in the verbatim-cinema style famously used by Clio Barnard in her 2010 film The Arbor: a complex, imaginative, or deeply considered adaptation of the 1990 book Touching the Rock by John M Hull,an Australian-born theologian resident at the University of Birmingham, who wrote approximately his experience of going, and then being blind. Hull created a huge personal diary archive on audio cassettes: not just his journal but also remarkable conversations with his wife,and even a kind of reportage of daily life. Continue reading...
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