Blinder gives us dry facts and retina-scouring light without telling us what to do with these things. The film consists of 6386 photographs representing every character and object featured in the English translation of José Saramago’s novel Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. In conceptual parallel with these images, Blinder‘s soundtrack is comprised of 6386 audio samples extracted from Blindness, Fernando Meirelles’ feature film based on Saramago’s novel.
Also in this combined programme
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Things
A four seasons’ fable, we see a kaleidoscope of magic and uncertainty in Things, incredibly Ben Rivers’ fifteenth film at IFFR since his 2007 debut. -
The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music
Visual, musical tour of eccentric funerary traditions and rites in Southern Vietnam. Loss and joy meet on the threshold of life and death. -
Quiet Zone
Fear of Wi-Fi and mobile phones can take over your life if you are electromagnetically sensitive. Exceptionally depicted search for a radiation-free p
Film details
- Countries of production
- Brazil, Netherlands
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm