Black Sun

Black Sun, The images inside a blind man's mind

When he became blind, visual artist Hugues Montalembert had to learn life again. Basic things like find his way trough the streets of New York, cook his own meal and learn to be patient were some of his most essential challenges. It is curious that he was not left in total darkness. From the beginning of his blindness, his brain began to produce images uninterruptedly, as if he saw a movie in the privacy of his mind.

In Black Sun this psychedelic imaginary permeates director Gary Tarn's proposal to tell Montalembert's transformative experience. The French painter, writer and filmmaker tell us his story while a carousel of images illustrates this impressionist dimension. A constant music accompanies us varying its dynamics as Montalembert changes landscapes and projects, like when he travels alone and blind to countries like Indonesia and India, and the book he writes in Bali about his life.