Blinde engle

Summary Unable to tell the story of the ever-changing society of South Africa, a documentary director has to re-discover how to see and hires a blind Danish actor (Rune T. Kidde) as his alter-ego in an attempt to do so. Mixing documentary - the making of the movie itself - and fiction, the film tells the story of a blind man who enjoyed paragliding until he was forced to stop by the loss of his sight some 10 years ago. After years spent trying to get acquainted with his new condition, the man feels now the need to fly again. Unable to do that in his native country because of his handicap, he travels to South Africa. Here he pays a local maid (Bonnie Mbuli) to be "his eyes". But the growing intimacy between the two generates dissent within the black community where she belongs. View more details

Blinde engle

Directed : Jon Bang Carlsen

Written : Jon Bang Carlsen

Stars : Bonnie Mbuli Jon Bang Carlsen Rune T. Kidde

5.4

Details

Genres : Drama Biography Documentary

Release date : May 24, 2007

Countries of origin : Denmark

Language : English Danish Xhosa

Production companies : C&C Productions

Summary Unable to tell the story of the ever-changing society of South Africa, a documentary director has to re-discover how to see and hires a blind Danish actor (Rune T. Kidde) as his alter-ego in an attempt to do so. Mixing documentary - the making of the movie itself - and fiction, the film tells the story of a blind man who enjoyed paragliding until he was forced to stop by the loss of his sight some 10 years ago. After years spent trying to get acquainted with his new condition, the man feels now the need to fly again. Unable to do that in his native country because of his handicap, he travels to South Africa. Here he pays a local maid (Bonnie Mbuli) to be "his eyes". But the growing intimacy between the two generates dissent within the black community where she belongs. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama Biography Documentary

Release date : May 24, 2007

Countries of origin : Denmark

Language : English Danish Xhosa

Production companies : C&C Productions

Comments
Welcome to juqing comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Login to display more comments

Edit Focus

We are all images of this film

We are all images of this film

In this film by Aleksandr Balagura, Alain Fleischer, with the help of Danielle Shirman, his partner and collaborator, speaks about his art, reads a chapter of his new novel, and reluctantly comments on the Zen "Story of the Ten Oxen", which in the film becomes a Story of Ten Horses and is illustrated by way of Eadweard Muybridge's sequential stills. "WE ARE ALL IMAGES OF THIS FILM" is a paraphrase of Alain Fleischer's answer to my question, "What is an image?". Photographer, filmmaker, writer, and more - "a total artist" -, Alain Fleischer has the rare quality of seeing the world with the freshness, curiosity, and imagination of a child that explores reality by play, who sees, finds, establishes (or perhaps re-finds and re-establishes) the secret links between objects and phenomena, often invisible to the adult eye. It is precisely his constant readiness to get involved in an artistic adventure, combined with the awareness of the method, with a mature and concrete analysis of the material and the means, that allows him to create pure, unpolluted images. Images perceived at their origin, as it were "for the first Jme". The ability and talent to transform reality into art, and, vice versa, to restore to art the quality of reality, is a central feature of his work. WE ARE ALL IMAGES OF THIS FILM is the result of three meetings with Alain Fleischer, which took place in his Italian home on Lake Bracciano, where he introduced me to the various aspects of his art. I tried to find the internal links between the motifs, themes, images of his works, and to combine them in a single flow, a single current, driven by the spiritual need for creation hidden behind Fleischer's ostensible "French rationalism". For this purpose, I used motifs that are very dear to me: the Zen Story of the Ten Oxen (which in the film becomes the Story of the Ten Horses, read and commented on by Alain Fleischer at my request), and sequences based on the stills of Eadweard Muybridge. Aleksandr Balagura

All Filters