Notes on Blindness
From: Virtually There - MIT Technology Review - March / April 2017
By: Ty Burr

The 20-minute Notes on Blindness: Into the Darkness was much praised at the
now-annual virtual-reality sidebar at the Sundance Film Festival last year,
and it went on to win festival prizes throughout 2016. Based on the diaries
of the late John Hull, a British writer and editor who lost his sight at age
45, Notes uses Hull’s recorded voice as guide to an otherworld: a 360°
panoramic London park, ink-black except for silhouetted outlines, that is
illuminated by each sound we hear. A passing jogger’s feet seem to
bioluminesce with every clip-clop; the wind through the trees brings imagined
color to branches and leaves. An entire landscape of synesthesia comes into
being before our eyes and ears. Yes, it would and does work on a rectangular
film or TV screen, but not nearly as convincingly as this immersive
inner-yet-outer experience.

Source:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603467/hollywood-has-no-idea-what-to-do-with-vr

Links:
Notes on Blindness
http://notesonblindness.arte.tv/en/vr

John Hull
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/aug/16/john-hull

Notes on Blindness (video 12:15)
https://vimeo.com/84336261

Notes on Blindness (video 12:09)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/16/opinion/16OpDoc-NotesOnBlindness.html