Darkness visible; blindness and borders/memories and movies. Issue 4 (20th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Staton, David
• Is Part Of: Visual studies. Volume 36:Issue 4/5(2021)
• Page Start: 426
• Page End: 434
• Publication Date: 2021-10-20
• Subjects: Visual perception -- Periodicals; Visual anthropology -- Periodicals; Visual sociology -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2020.1763193
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1472-586X

Abstract

Abstract : The author considers a trio of films of recent vintage in which the primary narrator is sight impaired and consider the role memory and recollection play in the telling of their accounts. Each film – Notes on Blindness, Blue, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – are biographical and depicted in documentary or hybrid/stylised documentary format. Common threads and themes unite the seemingly disparate characters and these focus on water and waiting. How a 'sightless' scene is recreated for film is at the heart of this article.