CATARACT
- Starring Alphonse Sarnelle, Nayeem Mahbub and Princy
- Fall 2006, 16mm film, 4 min
- Official Selection of the Ivy Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival and Ingenuity Festival 2007
Losing sight is one of the oldest and most pervasive of human preoccupations. In CATARACT, perspective transforms the lens into a physical eye, upon which a cataract forms as if it were a bit of dirt on the glass. This blind spot grows larger and more obtrusive as the film develops, as the character's anxiety amplifies. Psychology plays out through a variety of metaphors and associations; we watch as the narrator plays hide-and-seek through the landscape of his disorder, even as it comes rushing down upon him.

