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Today's trailer is for "Notes on Blindness," based on one man's intimate examination of losing his eyesight. The film will have its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival — starting in 36 days.
Filmmakers Peter Middleton and James Spinney put images to the audio diaries of John M. Hull, the British author who started losing his sight in 1980. He recorded the day-to-day experiences of his blindness in an audio diary he started in 1983.
Middleton and Spinney previously made an Emmy-winning short film with the same title, which screened at Sundance in 2014 and appeared in The New York Times "Op Docs" series. (The above trailer was made for the short, according to a publicist.)
The feature film has a companion work, a virtual-reality experience called "Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness," which will be shown in Sundance's New Frontier installation on Park City's Old Main Street (in the former home of The Claimjumper).
"Notes on Blindness" will screen in the festival's New Frontier program.
— Sean P. Means