Frank Senior loves New York City even though he’s never been able to marvel at its skyline or be dazzled by its unrelenting lights. Blind since birth, Frank’s everyday life in a city of 8 million requires extreme focus and he has trained himself to have an acute awareness of his surroundings. Buoyant and jazz-inflected, Sound of Vision distills a simple portrait of a man’s daily life into a stylish and expressive take on the experience of blindness.
A jazz-inflected, stylishly expressive take on the experience of blindness
Directors: Dongnan Chen, Julia Doran, Loretta van der Horst, Joseph Vele

videoIllness and disease
For Flo Fox, blindness and paralysis don’t stop a career in street photography
10 minutes

videoChildhood and adolescence
Two blind teens navigate life and love in the US Rust Belt
13 minutes

videoSubcultures
New York City, 1986 – the grit, the graffiti, the glory
18 minutes

videoCities
What happens at the all-night corner shop before sunrise
7 minutes

videoIllness and disease
As a young man’s sight fails him, friendship and night fishing help to keep his bearings
13 minutes

videoCities
Walt Whitman’s poetry frames scenes from 1920s New York in this film classic
10 minutes

videoArchitecture
A whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s high-rises is an awesome meditation on urbanity
9 minutes

videoCities
A brisk, tactile jaunt across an urban landscape’s many surfaces
1 minute

videoConsciousness and altered states
A neurologist finds peace and happiness in the feeling of constant acceleration
16 minutes