Extensive eyesight loss and the possibility of total blindness didn’t shut down queer filmmaker Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother). Instead, it inspired this profoundly personal non-fiction film, which not only documents his own genetic eye disorder, but shows how three other working artists with visual impairments—photographer John Dugdale, writer Ryan Knighton, and dancer Kayla Hamilton—have adjusted their practices around their changed capacities. An intimate study of the artistic process that contemplates the relationship between the sense of sight and artistic vision, Evans’s film is an adventure in perception, and the imagination, the very essence of cinema.
2019 / 78 mins / U.S.A., Canada, Germany
*WINNER, OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY - 2019 FRAMELINE FILM FESTIVAL*
*WINNER, ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - 2019 OUTFEST FILM FESTIVAL*
"Endlessly thought-provoking. Consistently fascinates the mind and
activates the senses."
– THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Quietly wondrous to behold”
- Joe Morgenstern, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Evans has made a touchingly honest ode to the inner life of all artists.”
- Robert Abele, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"An evocative meditation on sight, cinema...and a giving look at the process
of expanded creativity by four fascinating artists.
