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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. John then starts making a diary on audio cassette to make sense of all the changes.
Quite often, the filmmakers go for blurry scenery, surreal events and odd camera shots that feel more like gimmicks than an accurate representation of its subject's affliction.
Sighted viewers should be thankful enough; for cinemagoers who've suffered or who are suffering sight problems, Notes on Blindness might well comprise the most powerful -- and most empowering -- audio-described screening in years.
English writer and theologian John Hull, who went blind in the early 1980s and kept an audio diary of his experience, is the subject of this thought-provoking film, which takes an unusual if not always successful approach to the documentary form.