Visual Disturbances

A film exploring the psychology of 'inattentional blindness' -- the inability to perceive things that are in plain sight directly in front of us. The film applies this psychological theory to cinematic perception and proposes a radical history of film style. Examining a diverse range of filmmakers from the Lumière Brothers to Jacques Tati to Michael Haneke, filmmaker Eric Faden reveals a hidden film style he calls “the invisible cinema.”