Notes on Blindness

Director: Peter Middleton, James Spinney

Year: 2021

From the award-winning creative team behind Notes On Blindness and Listen To Me, Marlon comes a contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure. In an innovative blend of newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archive, the film traces Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom, before his scandalous fall from grace.<br /> Refracting his life through a kaleidoscope of previously unheard voices and perspectives, the film sheds new light on the many sides of a groundbreaking, controversial and visionary artist. For decades he was the most famous man in the world but who was The Real Charlie Chaplin?<br /> Official Selection Telluride Film Festival - World premiere<br /> Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Create

Director: Peter Middleton, James Spinney

Year: 2016

In 1983, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memory and imaginative life 'Notes on Blindness' creates an impression of his new world, immersing the audience in John’s experience of blindness.<br /> A feature-length version of Middleton and Spinney's 2014 Sundance-selected short 'Notes on Blindness'.<br /> Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2016 - New Frontier - World premiere

Director: Peter Middleton, James Spinney

Year: 2013

For the past four months John has been living in total blindness - restricted to the confines of his body. The rain brings depth, detail and contour to his environment - for the first time since losing his sight, he is addressed by the world.