Notes on Blindness : RainfallA documentary short supported by IdeasTap and Touchstone Trust- Winner: Best Short Documentary, Hot Docs 2013- Selected for Sydney Film Festival 2013- Selected for London Short Film Festival 2013 - Selected for Open City Docs Festival 2013- Nominated for ICA Experimental Film Award - Screened at ’Sound & Image’, BFI London Film Festival, with Q&A - Screened at Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery- Extract featured on Nowness.com Stepping out into the rain John is captivated by the rich and varied soundscape that envelops him: the water splashing in the blocked gutter, cascading down the wall, rhythmically drumming into the water-soaked lawn. For the past five months John has been living in total blindness - restricted to the confines of his body. The rain brings depth, detail and contour to his environment. For the first time since losing his sight, he is addressed by the world. He feels alive. John Hull lost his sight in 1983. For the next three years he would keep a diary on audiocassette - an intimate record that deconstructs his experience of blindness in relation to his family, his identity and his faith. Notes on Blindness: Rainfall uses John’s original audio as narration - the very first time his recordings have been heard in public. The film will also be incorporated into the feature length documentary Into Darkness - scheduled for release in 2014.

Notes on Blindness : Rainfall
A documentary short supported by IdeasTap and Touchstone Trust

- Winner: Best Short Documentary, Hot Docs 2013
- Selected for Sydney Film Festival 2013
- Selected for London Short Film Festival 2013

- Selected for Open City Docs Festival 2013
- Nominated for ICA Experimental Film Award

- Screened at ’Sound & Image’, BFI London Film Festival, with Q&A

- Screened at Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery
- Extract featured on Nowness.com


Stepping out into the rain John is captivated by the rich and varied soundscape that envelops him: the water splashing in the blocked gutter, cascading down the wall, rhythmically drumming into the water-soaked lawn. For the past five months John has been living in total blindness - restricted to the confines of his body. The rain brings depth, detail and contour to his environment. For the first time since losing his sight, he is addressed by the world. He feels alive.


John Hull lost his sight in 1983. For the next three years he would keep a diary on audiocassette - an intimate record that deconstructs his experience of blindness in relation to his family, his identity and his faith. Notes on Blindness: Rainfall uses John’s original audio as narration - the very first time his recordings have been heard in public. The film will also be incorporated into the feature length documentary Into Darkness - scheduled for release in 2014.

5 months ago  Notes (1)
Find out more about our documentary feature ‘Into Darkness’, based around 16 hours of audio diaries kept by writer and theologian John Hull, deconstructing his experience of blindness.

Find out more about our documentary feature ‘Into Darkness’, based around 16 hours of audio diaries kept by writer and theologian John Hull, deconstructing his experience of blindness.

7 months ago  Notes (0)

The Magnetic Fields - Quick!
“Quick!” is taken from The Magnetic Fields’ new album “Love At The Bottom Of The Sea”

Order the album via Domino:http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/23-11-11/love-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea/

Ada: Elizabeth Webster
Blom: Erik Sandling

Director of Photography: James Blann
Production Designer: Eddie Hecht
Make Up: Giada Venturini
Production Manager: Sian Tomlinson
Production Assistant: Chris Belson
Runners: Mariah Hutchinson, George Campbell
Script Editor: Oliver Stevens
Producers: Peter Middleton and Jen Kerrison
Director: James Spinney

Special thanks to Matt Houghton, Heloise Wood, Ana Fletcher, Holly Williams, Jude Collins

Production Company: Fee Fie Foe Films

“Quick!” written by: Stephin Merritt
Performed by The Magnetic Fields
Released on Merge Records in the US
Domino Records Internationally

©2012 The Magnetic Fields

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1 year ago  Notes (1)

Me & The Neck - Cold Caller Love

A music video for Me & The Neck “Cold Caller Love”, from their EP Wake The Blood.

- Selected for Flatpack Festival 2012
- Selected for BBC Music Video Festival 2011
- Kino London Film of the Week 20/10/11
- Selected for Cannes In a Van 2012

Giles : Ross Motley

Esteban, the Commander : Grahame Edwards
Nico, the horse : Mimi

Horse Wrangler : Gillian Tusting
Pyro-technician : Alistair Tusting
Eclipse supervisor : Jack Mooney
Costume : Jude Collins
Make up : Sarah Hamilton
Camera Assistant : Matt Houghton
Director of Photography : James Blann
Production Manager : Jen Kerrison
Producer : Peter Middleton
Director : James Spinney

A Fee Fie Foe Films Production (feefiefoefilms.co.uk)

1 year ago  Notes (0)
Wavelengths A 12-minute short film.  Made with support from Film London.  Starring Kate Anthony (Coronation St.) and James Smith (The Thick Of It, Grandma’s House).- Winner: Best Film Award, Short Cuts Film Festival 2012- Nominated: Film London Best of Boroughs Award- Selected for East End Film Festival 2012

Wavelengths

A 12-minute short film.  Made with support from Film London.  Starring Kate Anthony (Coronation St.) and James Smith (The Thick Of It, Grandma’s House).

- Winner: Best Film Award, Short Cuts Film Festival 2012
- Nominated: Film London Best of Boroughs Award
- Selected for East End Film Festival 2012

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