Feature film documents vision loss using virtual reality

An experimental film has been made to engage the public on the experience of adapting to blindness.

Emmy Award-winning short film Notes on Blindness will be released as full length feature film next month.

Three simulations of the New York Times commissioned feature film, Notes on Blindness – Into Darkness, were screened last week at the Curzon cinema in Bloomsbury London ahead of general release in UK cinemas on July 1.

Filmmakers James Spinney and Peter Middleton used variations of interactive audio and visual delivery to engage the public with the experience of the late Australian theologian, John Hull, who in the 1980s was afflicted with blindness mid-academic career, with a wife and a young son.