Notes on Blindness | Digital productions ARTE
Notes on Blindness
"Notes on Blindness : Into Darkness" is an immersive virtual reality (VR) project based on John Hull’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness released alongside the feature film.
The multi-awarded narrative VR experience is now available on Oculus Quest. ARTE gives you the opportunity to discover and rediscover Notes On Blindness, an emotional journey into a world beyond sight. In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassettes. These…
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Technical Info & Short Credits
- Format
- VR/360°/AR
- Genre
- Documentary
- Duration
- 7 min
- Technique
- Animation
- Production
- Ex Nihilo, ARTE France, Archer’s Mark
- Executive producer
- Novelab, Atlas V
- Creative Director
- Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton & James Spinney
- Artistic director
- Béatrice Lartigue, Fabien Togman & Arnaud Desjardins
- Creative coder
- Robin Picou
- Sound design and programming
- Florent Dumas & Thomas Couchard
- Producer
- Arnaud Colinart, David Coujard, Mike Brett et Jo - Jo Ellison
- Executive producer and audio director
- Amaury La Burthe
- Projet assistant
- Landia Egal & Corentin Lambot
- VR Representative
- Vincent Dondaine & Fred Volhuer
Casting
- Narrator
- John Hull
Nominations and awards
- WinnerPeabody Awards 2022XR Experience
- WinnerPrix Europa 2016Best Web Project
- Audience awardFNCeXPlore 2016
- WinnerKaleidoscope World Tour 2016Best Experimental Experience