Black Sun (documentary)
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Black Sun is a documentary film directed by Gary Tarn
. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
in 2005.
Gary Tarn explores the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist
and filmmaker who was blinded
by a vicious attack in 1978. After the attack, Montalembert learned to cope with his despair and to go through life a new way, seeking to make ordinary things extraordinary. Defying expectation, this remarkable artist continued to travel the world alone, learning to navigate life in a new and beautiful way. Through creative imagery and philosophical narration, director and composer
Gary Tarn creates an expressionist, poetic meditation both on an extraordinary life without vision, and on the idea of perception
in general.
Gary Tarn
Gary Tarn is a British filmmaker and composer. His debut feature, a documentary entitled Black Sun, was nominated for a BAFTA in the following category: The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director in their First Feature Film, 2007.-Awards:*2007 BAFTA / Nominated for Best...
. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
in 2005.
Gary Tarn explores the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and filmmaker who was blinded
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
by a vicious attack in 1978. After the attack, Montalembert learned to cope with his despair and to go through life a new way, seeking to make ordinary things extraordinary. Defying expectation, this remarkable artist continued to travel the world alone, learning to navigate life in a new and beautiful way. Through creative imagery and philosophical narration, director and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Gary Tarn creates an expressionist, poetic meditation both on an extraordinary life without vision, and on the idea of perception
Perception
Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...
in general.