Vision Portraits

Name: Vision Portraits
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 9, 2019
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 75
Cast: John Dugdale, Kayla Hamilton, Rodney Evans, Ryan Knighton

2019

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| Release Date: August 9, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: John Dugdale, Kayla Hamilton, Rodney Evans, Ryan Knighton

Summary: A feature-length documentary that chronicles the creative paths of blind and visually impaired artists including a photographer (John Dugdale), dancer (Kayla Hamilton), writer (Ryan Knighton) and the film’s own director, Rodney Evans.

Director: Rodney Evans

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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Nick Schager

Aug 30, 2019

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. Read full review

Bobby LePire

Mar 16, 2019

Vision Portraits heart lies within these stories, but its power stems from its style. The cinematography by Kjerstin Rossi and Mark Tumas is often obscured, fuzzy, out of focus, or so close it is uncomfortable. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Mar 20, 2019

Brief, personal, insightful, and well-crafted, Vision Portraits is a giving look at the process of expanded creativity by four fascinating artists. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Aug 9, 2019

This is an inspiring film, a funny and informative feature whose subjects were creative kindred spirits I’d never seen onscreen before. I realized that I was being represented here, and my unreconciled shame morphed into a sense of liberation. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Aug 22, 2019

The extraordinary thing about this film by Rodney Evans is how well it conveys the complexity. Vision is precious, it reminds us frequently. At the same time we’re brought to understand that blindness, far from being the end of the world, constitutes another mode of living in it. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Aug 8, 2019

Despite its focus on as fluid and mysterious a subject as art, Vision Portraits addresses blindness in concrete, comprehensible terms. Read full review

The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Mar 16, 2019

Oscillating between traditional documentary and experimental, subjective attempts to capture what it’s like to be impaired, Evans creates a moderately successful portrait of, what the film references as, the space between seeing and not. Read full review

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