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Notes on Blindness is a documentary of Britain. In 1983, a few days before his first son was born, the writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to understand the great change in his life, the writer began to write diary on cassette tape. When it was published in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the diary as the most unusual, most accurate and the most beautiful description of the blindness. According to Oliver Sacks , this is a masterpiece (Sacks 2003). He enjoys these original records. In fact, the notes on blind people contain life of dreams, memories and imagination, and showed the inner world of the blindness.

According to O Landesman, digital technology is often considered as a documentary statement of complex evidence (Landesman 2008). The evidence can be shown in a new and direct way. And now, this kind of documentary can be used to keep the information in the video and preserve the mixture of facts and genres. Digital technology has recently played an important role in the formation of a lasting facts. In Notes on Blindness, the notes on blind people contain life of dreams, memories and imagination, and showed the inner world of the blind writer.

Reference

Landesman, O. 2008. In and out of this world: digital video and the aesthetics of realism in the new hybrid documentary. Studies in Documentary Film, 2(1), 33-45.

Sacks, O. 2003. The mind’s eye. New Yorker, 28, 48-59.

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