Gary Tarn, Black Sun

Gary Tarn, director of Black Sun, had never made a movie before embarking on this cinematic adventure, but the British composer was so intrigued by Hugues de Montalembert's bestselling memoir that he contacted the Frenchman and asked him to speak of how he turned devastating tragedy into a personal victory. Montalembert was robbed and attacked in his Washington Square apartment in 1978. Paint remover was thrown into his eyes; within hours this painter was permanently blinded. Within two years however he was swimming in the Fiji sea, alone. Montalembert's journey from sightlessness to "seeing" the world as a traveler and bestselling author becomes, in Tarn's unique telling, a visual poem of images and sounds that accompany the narration.

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