a current fear of light
16mm/video, 7 mins, 1996
sound design: owen o'toole
Initially inspired by Aldous Huxley’s eyesight improvement handbook The Art of Seeing (Huxley was legally blind at the age of fourteen and slowly improved his eyesight using these techniques), the film addresses light in its purest cinematic forms—scratched and punctured emulsions. seeing/watching/looking, retinal echoes, light-gazing, nystagmus and phosphene...