Eye Song

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AugenliedDanish (original)zum Film
Eye SongEnglish (subtitled)zum Film
Foreign Title: 
Eye Song
Synopsis
Does someone who doesn´t see, see nothing? Blindness is fascinating for the sighted. And alarming. And inconceivable. How do the blind see the world? We took a trip through Europe. And met very different people. All are blind. A film exclusively with the blind. But it deals with seeing. With the visible and the invisible. With hearing, with smelling. With beauty and with fear. With dreams. With perception of the world with all the senses. Not a film about the handicapped. A film about us. About our retina, our perception. "The seeing, it seems to me, don´t really see very much," somebody says at some point. And laughs. And tells us a tale, wild and chaotic like a movie for the wide screen. All the blind see. In their dreams.

Eye Song is a film about loss. And a film about wealth. A wealth that - however concealed - is in all of us. Suddenly, in the middle of Frankfurt, the blind mother says: "I smell the sea breeze." And the professor from England knows the answer to the question: Why does one kiss with closed eyes?
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Blindness
Perspective
Hearing
Feeling
Smelling
Blindness
Runtime (in min.):90
Color:color
Format:35mm
Aspect Ratio:1:1.66
Year Of Production:2003
Awards: 
Festivals & Award CeremonyYearStatusAward
Munich2003screened
Hessian Film Award2003wonHessian Film Award Documentary
Keywords
Blindness; Perspective; Hearing; Feeling; Smelling
Categories
Society & Social Life, Living with Disabilities, Health, Medical Science & Psychology, Disabilities