''Black Sun'' is a documentary film directed by

Gary Tarn Gary Tarn (born 1962) is a British filmmaker and composer. Biography Gary Tarn was a member of the band Drum Theatre, which topped the European charts in 1985 with "Eldorado". They released one album "Everyman", which was re-released by Cherr ...

. The film premiered at the

2005 Toronto International Film Festival The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres. Awards At the Festival's closing event, the following ...

. Tarn received a nomination for the Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film in 2007 from BAFTA. Tarn explores the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

and

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

who was blinded by a vicious, unprovoked attack by two young assailants in 1978. After the attack, Montalembert learned to cope with his despair and to go through life a new way, seeking to make ordinary things extraordinary. Defying expectation, this remarkable artist continued to travel the world alone, learning to navigate life in a new and beautiful way. Through creative imagery and philosophical narration, director and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

creates an expressionist, poetic meditation both on an extraordinary life without vision, and on the idea of

perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system ...

in general.

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''Black Sun''
at the Indiepix Films website * 2005 documentary films 2005 films British documentary films Documentary films about painters Documentary films about film directors and producers Documentary films about blind people Films produced by John Battsek 2000s English-language films 2000s British films English-language documentary films {{bio-documentary-film-stub

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