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Notes on Blindness is an incredibly fascinating and interactive documentary that follows the story of a man named John Hull, who lost his sight back in 1993. After losing sight, John started documenting his new world through audio recordings and these recordings were used to make Notes on Blindness, which uses a mix of storytelling and VR to replicate John’s experiences. Béatrice Lartigue was the animation and art director for this production that won Best Experimental Experience at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is a visual artist based in Paris and studies things like the invisible relationships between time, space and images. She works a lot with immersive experience and physical interactive installations. I find it amazing how she was able to animate a supposedly world of darkness through some audio recordings. Each moment and aspect of the audio recorded scenes were brilliantly constructed and although monotone in color, was still beautiful.