Film Screening & Discussion: Notes on Blindness

Based on the Emmy-award-winning short film, Notes on Blindness (2016) profiles writer and theologian John M. Hull, who documented the process of his deteriorating vision on audio cassette, published in 1990 as his memoir Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness.

Followed by a discussion with Jason Middleton, Visiting Associate Professor, Cinema Studies and Ellen Tani, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Second Sight: the Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art.

Free and open to the public.

Illustration: poster for the film, Notes on Blindness