Quotes for BLINDING
A hypnotic, mesmerizing journey which will both challenge and haunt the viewer”. Baibre Holmes, Raindance Film Festival.
“Sanguedolce is a true poet of images” SoleLuna Festival, Italy.
“If you get to see one film this festival… it’s modern day alchemy … a ravishing feast of textures and tones”. Don O’Mahony, Corona Cork International Film Festival.
“The desire to push the boundaries of image in this genre may be the key to Sanguedolce’s approach to filmmaking”. Emmet O’Brien, FILM IRELAND.
“Adventuresome documentary -- with expressionistic visuals beautifully hand-colored on 16mm. Always interesting”. Dennis Harvey, VARIETY.
“A complex and compelling narrative of unusual beauty and power. Seattle Gay Scene, Weekly.
“A bold mix, expertly put together, that will lead you to see the world in a whole new way. Andy Spletzer, Seattle International Film Festival.
Hand-coloured, experimental and political are not always so hypnotically joined. Gertjan Zuilhof, International Film Festival Rotterdam.
the hand-processed film works of Steve Sanguedolce are a powerful reminder of cinema’s essentially alchemical nature…a mesmerizing audiovisual stream of archival and original material. It’s another challenging work, though Sanguedolce’s hand-dyed images provide a compelling throughline. Jason Anderson, Toronto Star
internationally recognized filmmaker pushes his fascination with home movies to a poetic and political climax. Blake Williams, blogTO
“BLINDING is a hypnotic, mesmerizing journey through vision. BLINDING is an innovative documentary that artistically combines form and content to create a film which will both challenge and haunt the viewer”. Baibre Holmes
Raindance Film Festival.
“BLINDING couples the confessional intimacy of a documentary with a hypnotic panoply of hand dyed images, luring its audience into a compromise between visual skepticism and optical sumptuousness”. Eli Horwatt, Pleasure Dome.
“A stream-of-consciousness-like narration that gives this experimental documentary eerie overtones it uses to capture our attention”. Plus Camerimage Festival, Poland.
“One of the greatest films I ever saw. And the author himself, so strange that a completely extroverted person can create such an introverted and imaginative movie”. Tomas, Jihlava Film Festival, Czech Republic.
“If you get to see one film this festival! It’s modern day alchemy, and maybe it might just spark an epiphany in someone out there about the power of film. It’s a ravishing feast of textures and tones”. Don O’Mahony, Programmer Corona Cork International Film Festival.
“A consistent flow of arresting images bordering on the abstract dominate the piece. Each scene is presented in a kaleidoscopic array of flickering colour and evocative atmosphere. The desire to push the boundaries of image in this genre may be the key to Sanguedolce’s approach to filmmaking”. Emmet O’Brien, FILM IRELAND.
Innovators such as Canada's Steve Sanguedolce fascinated audiences with hand-painted 16mm footage in "BLINDING," Will Tizard, VARIETY.
“Adventuresome documentary -- with expressionistic visuals beautifully hand-colored on hand-processed 16mm. Always interesting, especially aesthetically”. By Dennis Harvey, VARIETY.
“A complex and compelling narrative of unusual beauty and power. Seattle Gay Scene, Weekly.
“BLINDING is a work of visual poetry”. Goldstar Review.
“It’s a bold mix, expertly put together, that will lead you to see the world in a whole new way”. Andy Spletzer, Seattle International Film Festival.
The title is BLINDING, but in fact the film is about looking and vision. An essay about observing the world. Hand-coloured, experimental and political are not always so hypnotically joined. Gertjan Zuilhof, programmer International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011.