There’s a difference between sight and vision, and that line is investigated with illuminating intimacy by “Vision Portraits,” Rodney Evans’ documentary about his struggles — and those of three other artists — to continue working in the face of mounting blindness. Bolstered by the writer-director’s own journey, recounted via a collage-like aesthetic that eloquently conveys his circumscribed condition, it’s a nonfiction study of artistic creation and, also, of individual courage and perseverance. As its ongoing theatrical expansion suggests,
The recipient of the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for his 2004 feature “Brother to Brother,” Evans was a filmmaker on the rise even though his sight had begun to deteriorate in 1996 on account of a rare genetic (and degenerative) disease called retinitis pigmentosa that left him with something akin to tunnel vision. As he states in narration (and via transitional textual poems), that loss was terrifying for its impact...
The recipient of the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for his 2004 feature “Brother to Brother,” Evans was a filmmaker on the rise even though his sight had begun to deteriorate in 1996 on account of a rare genetic (and degenerative) disease called retinitis pigmentosa that left him with something akin to tunnel vision. As he states in narration (and via transitional textual poems), that loss was terrifying for its impact...
- 8/30/2019
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
It’s hard to describe a film that is merely a series of pointed, often fiery, discussions between different people on the topic of race, particularly when those discussions, ultimately, aren’t impactful. They manage only to rile up an audience that is already overwhelmed by their own experiences with race without providing any forward movement or direction. So let’s just call writer-director Roberto Minervini’s “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?” what it is: aimless and triggering.
It’s the most unproductive type of sociopolitical film, especially in today’s climate, in that it aims to incite but not to motivate. Documentarian Minervini (“The Other Side”) introduces us to black people in 2017, living deep inside the margins in Louisiana and Mississippi and feeling helpless following a rash of brutal murders of black residents that have gone carelessly unsolved. The constant lack of attention to...
It’s the most unproductive type of sociopolitical film, especially in today’s climate, in that it aims to incite but not to motivate. Documentarian Minervini (“The Other Side”) introduces us to black people in 2017, living deep inside the margins in Louisiana and Mississippi and feeling helpless following a rash of brutal murders of black residents that have gone carelessly unsolved. The constant lack of attention to...
- 8/15/2019
- by Candice Frederick
- The Wrap
If you were to ask the casual movie-goer one of the most important physical characteristics for an accomplished film director, odds are they’ll likely say eyesight. The idea that a film director can create a work of art in such a visual medium, while also being blind is unheard of. But that’s exactly what filmmaker Rodney Evans explores in his new documentary “Vision Portraits.”
As seen in the new trailer, “Vision Portraits” primarily focuses on the life of Evans, an award-winning filmmaker that is losing his vision, threatening to throw his entire career and passion into question.
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As seen in the new trailer, “Vision Portraits” primarily focuses on the life of Evans, an award-winning filmmaker that is losing his vision, threatening to throw his entire career and passion into question.
Continue reading ‘Vision Portraits’ Trailer: New Doc Explores How The Loss Of Vision Hasn’t Prevented Artists From Creating at The Playlist.
- 6/27/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
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