“Blind” focuses on Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Pettersen), a woman contending with the loss of vision. In trying to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days attempting to reconstruct the visual world as she once knew it. As she struggles with her newfound predicament, she begins writing salacious fictional stories that slowly morph into fantasies of what her husband does when she’s not around. When real-life events seamlessly give way to Ingrid’s creations, she is able to find a means to come to terms with her disability. Provocative, sexy and deeply-felt, “Blind” won raves out of its premiere at Sundance where it won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award as well as the Label Europa Cinemas Award at the Berlin International Film Festival the following month.
Blind
Blind
A film by Eskil Vogt
Year: 2014
Country: Norway
Runtime: 96 min
Color: Color
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: English
About the Director
Eskil Vogt (born 1974) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter.
His films include Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011), and Louder ThanBombs (2015), all of which were directed by Joachim Trier from scripts written by Vogt and Trier.[1]
He also wrote and directed the drama film Blind, which was screened at the 2014SundanceFilm Festival and received the World Cinema Screenwriting Award.[2] The film was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.[3
Cast and Crew
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Producers: Sigve Endresen, Hans-Jørgen Osnes
Director: Eskil Vogt
Screenplay: Eskil Vogt
Director of Photography: Thimios Bakatakis
Editing: Jens Christian Fodstad
Art Direction: Solfrid Kjetså
CAST
Ellen Dorrit Petersen
Henrik Rafaelsen
Vera Vitali
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Awards and Festivals
Europa Cinemas Label – Berlinale Panorama
New Talent Grand Pix – CPH PIX
Screenwriting Award – Sundance FF
Golden Tulip, International Competition – Istanbul FF
FIPRESCI Award – Kraków OFF Plus Camera
Best Director – Athens IFF
Grand Prix – Cinessonne Festival of European Cinema
Film of the Year – Norwegian Film Critics’ Association
