# animate! › Films › Blinded by Light by Simon Pummell › synopses

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/blindedbylight/synopses

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, digital video, visual effects, blindness, vision, disability, dramatic monologue, filmmaker

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**Blinded by Light** a film by Simon Pummell

2000, 7 min 20 sec

### animate! synopsis

Vision on again as the eyes have it after doing time in the dark. A post-operative sight recorder voices the hope, scores the fear. Taking things at face value. It looks like it might just work.

### one sentence synopsis

A man blind from birth gains his sight at fifty.

### short synopsis

A man blind from birth gains his sight at fifty. This is the story of his struggle to learn to see.

The film is a dramatic monologue with special effects to take us into the world of the newly sighted man.

**Blinded by Light** film, stills and other materials © Simon Pummell 2000