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- 2019
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h 18 m
- 2019
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h 18 m
Summary A feature-length documentary that chronicles the creative paths of blind and visually impaired artists including a photographer (John Dugdale), dancer (Kayla Hamilton), writer (Ryan Knighton) and the film’s own director, Rodney Evans.
- 2019
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h 18 m
- 2019
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h 18 m
Vision Portraits
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Summary A feature-length documentary that chronicles the creative paths of blind and visually impaired artists including a photographer (John Dugdale), dancer (Kayla Hamilton), writer (Ryan Knighton) and the film’s own director, Rodney Evans.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
75
100% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Bolstered by the writer-director’s own journey, recounted via a collage-like aesthetic that eloquently conveys his circumscribed condition, it’s a nonfiction study of artistic creation and, also, of individual courage and perseverance.
Brief, personal, insightful, and well-crafted, Vision Portraits is a giving look at the process of expanded creativity by four fascinating artists.
Evans has made a touchingly honest ode to the inner life of all artists.
This is an inspiring film, a funny and informative feature whose subjects were creative kindred spirits I’d never seen onscreen before. I realized that I was being represented here, and my unreconciled shame morphed into a sense of liberation.
The result is artistically uneven in structure but emotionally powerful throughout.
Despite its focus on as fluid and mysterious a subject as art, Vision Portraits addresses blindness in concrete, comprehensible terms.
Oscillating between traditional documentary and experimental, subjective attempts to capture what it’s like to be impaired, Evans creates a moderately successful portrait of, what the film references as, the space between seeing and not.
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Release Date Aug 9, 2019
Duration 1 h 18 m
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Tagline Four artists impacted by blindness. Four different paths to the imagination.
Website
https://www.rodneyevansfilm.com/
Awards
Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
L.A. Outfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination