Shot in the Dark (2017)
• January 19th, 2017 • 1h 19min
Documentary
Overview
Shot in the Dark is a documentary on three blind photographers: Pete Eckert, Sonia Soberats and Bruce Hall. A documentary on three blind people who devote their lives to creating images. What do they see in their mind's eyes? Do they sense that which we sighted miss, overlook, or don't take into consideration? Their images, as we sighted can see, are extraordinary. "Even with no input the brain keeps creating images," says Pete Eckert. Sonia Soberats states, "I only understood how powerful light is after I went blind." Shot in the Dark is a journey into an unfamiliar yet fascinating realm. "My camera is like a bridge," claims Bruce Hall. All these photographers embrace fantasy, chance, and contingency at a fundamental level. Shot in the Dark enriches our understanding of perception and creation. We all close our eyes in sleep, the sighted and blind alike, and in our dreams - we see.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Standard Operating Procedure
Released on: 2008-02-12
Documentary, War
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S...
66 Months
Released on: 2011-01-12
Documentary
Over a period of six years, director James Bluemel and producer Gordon Wilson followed epileptic alc...
Lui Ho Yin
Released on: 2024-04-25
Documentary
An intimate portrait into Tony, Lui Ho Yin, a 32 year-old skater, chef, photographer and model.
Poem of the Young Hearts
Released on: 1969-01-01
Documentary
An independently produced documentary about growing up as a blind youth in 1960's Japan. It focuses ...
Luisita Photo Studio
Released on: 2019-03-14
Documentary
The celebrities who visited Luisita Escarria's photo studio in Buenos Aires for decades are countles...
The Decisive Moment
Released on: 1973-02-05
Documentary
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment is an 18-minute film produced in 1973 by Scholastic Magaz...
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Released on: 2014-08-27
Documentary
The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping...
MMXIII
Released on: 2013-02-23
Drama, Documentary
An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections of construct...
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Released on: 1999-07-18
Documentary
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, hosted by Sam Waterston, tells the comp...
Absence of Me
Released on: 2019-11-22
Documentary
Hundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (19...
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
Released on: 1983-01-01
Documentary
An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but...
Martha: A Picture Story
Released on: 2019-11-28
Documentary
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a tim...
The Birders
Released on: 2019-02-08
Documentary
The film highlights legendary Colombian birdwatching guide Diego Calderon-Franco and National Geogra...
Dans le vent
Released on: 1963-10-10
Documentary
Short subject on how fashion is created-- not by the great couturiers, but on the street.
The Human Factor 2014
Released on:
Documentary
Feeling unfair about the power's portrayal of all its opponents, at the dawn of the '68 protests a y...
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Released on: 1969-12-29
Documentary
A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.
The Illumination
Released on: 2017-04-06
Documentary
When Gordon Gund went blind in 1970 at age 30 due to retinitis pigmentosa, he resolved to find a cur...
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
Released on: 2005-09-13
Documentary, Music
Legendary photographer and director Anton Corbijn is responsible for many of the most indelible and ...
Everything at Once (Paco & Manolo's Gaze)
Released on: 2021-04-08
Documentary
Paco and Manolo are two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona who have been working ...