SON 3

Overdubbing the roles of both torturer and victim in one of Indonesia's most contentious films, Darto becomes the one-man embodiment of an era's worst cruelties and sufferings.

Reality doesn't happen by itself. Terry Lothian works tirelessly to maintain the background details that we all take for granted. But with his department feeling the pinch of austerity cutbacks, it's not just the fabric of reality that's starting to unravel.

After making this film, Nils Frahm took off again to make recordings, and I had my images. We had the beginnings of a story.

Office technology becomes obsolete very quickly. Old tools transform into musical instruments of the future. The film is based on the Symphony # 2 for Dot Matrix Printers, composed by [The User].

In 1983 writer and theologian John Hull lost the final traces of light sensation. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping a diary on audio cassette. Over a three year period he recorded almost sixteen hours of material. NOTES ON BLINDNESS is the first time John’s original audio recordings have been heard…