Blind Spots
Overview of films
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Sakala
This study of the forgotten statue of Sakala, the first African boy to visit Belgium in 1884, critically analyses Western perspectives.
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Facebookistan
What is Facebook’s true face like? What hides behind Mark Zuckerberg’s baby face? This documentary tries – in vain – to put a face to t
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Eigenlicht
Certain minerals convert absorbed UV light into visible colours of unearthly beauty. Shown in sacred, cosmic silence.
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Unseen: The Lives of Looking
In his first documentary essay, artist Dryden Goodwin visits an eye surgeon, a NASA researcher and a human-rights lawyer. He literally (with a penc
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A Good American
Bill Binney, a former American secret service staffer talks about the period preceding whistleblower Snowden’s revelations. Or how the NSA was more
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Eidola
Artist Peter Miller used infrared glasses to examine a coil in the camera and wrote his ‘images’ onto it with a laser pen.
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Oncle Bernard – L’anti-leçon d’économie
Posthumous portrait of Charlie Hebdo satirist and economic commentator Bernard Maris. The footage dates back to the spring of 2000. Long before the
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Hello
A Mexican woman talks about her childhood on the rubbish tip. A German with a severe disability in both hands explains about his job as a computer
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The Light and the Paper
How empty is a blank page? This film carefully studies the prime precondition for seeing: the presence of light.
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La montagne magique
A camera takes us deep underground where Bolivian miners toil in primitive conditions. A time-machine film that takes us through the pitch black to
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L’invitation au voyage
A series of beautiful black-and-white photographs marred by yellow Post-its with their notes erased. An unassuming narrator makes them even more my
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Lightkeeping
Quotes from photographic pioneer William Fox Talbot’s letters accompany black-and-white images that exude timeless calm.