BLIND New Auteurs

Acclaimed Norwegian screenwriter Eskil Vogt (REPRISE, OSLO, AUGUST 31ST) makes his directorial debut with a dark comedy about Ingrid, a recently blinded woman who handles the loss of her sight by writing mordant stories that reveal her displacement and isolation from the people and places she’s beginning to forget. Vogt audaciously experiments with the conflation of words and images, visuals and imagination. Without losing any of the literary richness of his previous work, he displays an innate talent for visual storytelling, using myopic framing to illustrate the shrinking world of a heroine who refuses to leave her apartment. In an attempt to keep some control of her environment, she works on a novel illustrating her husband’s world outside their home, one full of hilariously vindictive encounters revealing her own insecurity and self-loathing. Vogt’s screenplay, which finds humor in pathos, won the World Screenwriting Award at Sundance this year.