click here to order


- available formats: DVD

Black Sun - a film by Gary Tarn

Grand Jury Prize - Newport International Film Festival
Special Jury Prize - Sarasota Film Festival
Best Documentary Nominee - British Independent Film Awards


"A very beautiful, life-enhancing film"
 - Philip French, THE OBSERVER

"Makes us see the world hungrily, deeply, anew"
 - THE TELEGRAPH

When assailants fling paint thinner into Hugues de Montalembert’s eyes during a brutal home invasion, the French artist’s world is suddenly plunged into darkness.  In this haunting, first-person documentary, de Montalembert narrates his long journey back from that abyss: the painful months of rehab, the strange, erotic visions, his attempts to reassert his independence and eventually attain a different kind of vision, reclaiming his identity as an artist.

 

2005, United Kingdom, 75 min.