Notes on Blindness
2014 · 14m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Pete Middleton
,
James Spinney
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Notes on Blindness
Overview
In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audio cassette.
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