The documentary features footage captured by five blind students in Paris.
Multidisciplinary artist Éric Baudelaire distributed Sony handicams to five students at the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris for his new film, For the Moon. Working with editor Claire Atherton, Baudelaire assembled footage captured by the students, some of whom are fully blind. The cinematography features awkward compositions, off-kilter angles, and lens flares, often resulting in abstract imagery. Subjects like Kadiatou and Mèï film their own experiences, focusing on intuition over scripted precision. One student, Iris, continued filming after a second enucleation, recording the daylight flooding her room even though she could no longer see the landscape. The project also highlights the students' musical creativity, featuring original raps and performances of Beethoven and Gilbert Montagné. This collaborative approach reorients the documentary point-of-view by documenting how subjects who are not immersed in visual culture interact with cameras and self-projection.
This project demonstrates how relinquishing technical control to subjects can generate a unique visual language based on intuition rather than standard composition. It challenges creators to consider how different sensory experiences can reshape the traditional relationship between the camera and the narrator.
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